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Unlimited time and money? Sure, I would put just about everything that looks human made under ground. The planet would appear mostly uninhabited. The load on
by LinuxBender 2y ago
Unlimited time and money? Sure, I would put just about everything that looks human made under ground. The planet would appear mostly uninhabited. The load on the electric grid would mostly vanish as underground temperature is mostly constant near 50F/9.9C and there would be more room for low profile non reflective hidden solar panels. Heating from 50F to whatever people want would be trivial with solar inductive heating, heat batteries, geothermal. Global warming and cooling could be mostly ignored. All the roads would be dozens of layers up and down based on their usage requirements, maintenance loops, locality, interstate, etc... The whole planet would be walkable, e-bikable, scooterable. Internet latency would drop everywhere. Dedicated high speed tubes would get people from anywhere to anywhere in no time.
Whats stopping me? Enough money to bribe everyone into going along with the plan.
- hedayet 2y agoIs this purely a network-first idea, or can someone test it on a small scale first?
- LinuxBender 2y agoIt could be done in one city. Parts of this are being done in Las Vegas but just the bits about roads. It should be a big city to reap the benefits of not sitting on the highway for a few hours a day.