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Undersea cable technology is fairly mature for data transmission, and rapidly advancing for power transmission (HVDC). You don't need a tunnel for either of tho
by tesseract 15y ago
Undersea cable technology is fairly mature for data transmission, and rapidly advancing for power transmission (HVDC). You don't need a tunnel for either of those. That leaves the oil pipeline - which I am having trouble understanding the benefits of, because both Russia and Alaska+Canada have oil reserves, as well as more ready access to large oil markets (Europe and the continental US, respectively) that do not first require piping the oil across each other's territory.
- caf 15y agoHVDC has already been used for longer distances - for example BassLink.
- electromagnetic 15y agoYou're speaking of the 3 largest countries in the world and saying having oil reserves in one part is economic for supplying the entire country.