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Sounds great, but why limit ourselves to food? If we are going through the trouble of building a pipeline all around the country we might as well use it for any
by speleding 16y ago
Sounds great, but why limit ourselves to food? If we are going through the trouble of building a pipeline all around the country we might as well use it for any type of cargo that will fit a 2m by 1m container.
- jacques_chester 16y agoMy first instinct is "what about furniture"? And later, "hey, let's use the dimensions of shipping containers!" The problem is volume of dirt to be removed. Assuming circular tunnels, the volume approximates (pi(r^2))length. It's an O(n2) problem to increase the size of cargo. Hence the focus on food, I suppose. For small cargos in densely settled areas this might be viable. For long haul I think that rail and road will still be king and queen.