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> Increasing capacity at bottlenecks along the way This would presumably amount to building a slightly shorter but nevertheless very long cable on/under land.
by nicoburns 4y ago
> Increasing capacity at bottlenecks along the way
This would presumably amount to building a slightly shorter but nevertheless very long cable on/under land. And I think it's much easier to just drop a cable under the sea than it is to dig and bury it under the ground or build pylons to carry it above the ground.
- throwaway742 4y agoThis is true. In my experience constructing additional pylons is always a bottleneck.
- aforwardslash 4y agoNot necessarily. The shortest maritime path crosses at least one country maritime economic exclusive area, that will have to agree on that, without reaping any meaningful benefit. Plugging by land is easier to negotiate, maintain and finance, as the connection can also be used by those countries. I'd guess the reason this isnt being done that way is both because the UK left the EU and the whole Gibraltar debacle. I may be wrong on this, but the whole thing just looks like UK being UK - trying to solve their problems while ignoring the rest of the world exists.