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You're coming up with some pretty flimsy reasons that this can't work, and that you believe the people funding, designing, and building these systems haven't co
by Jedd 1y ago
You're coming up with some pretty flimsy reasons that this can't work, and that you believe the people funding, designing, and building these systems haven't contemplated -- such as 'trees'.
- 1970-01-01 1y agoYes. These trees aren't flimsy obstacles for airplanes. Long term infra funding is very often cut if there isn't an immediate problem. Look around the US and you see power infra literally falling down and sparking wildfires from lack of maintenance.
- foota 1y agoIt doesn't really need to be maintained, it's an active construction site for the time it'll be needed?
- Jedd 1y agoBeing about 10,000 kilometres from the US, I can't conveniently look around there. I expect these guys had 'trees' on their risk register, and have suggested to the site owners to purchase a chainsaw / rent an excavator for a day or two. Either way, I'm pretty confident on a project the size we're talking here - somewhere upwards of USD $5 billion? - they've probably spent a couple of afternoons pondering logistics.
- ceejayoz 1y agoYou've reminded me of my favorite letter to the editor I've ever come across. A while back, we had a whiteout on the highway by the local airport. Someone wrote in to propose - in apparent seriousness - planting trees at the end of the runway to ensure it wouldn't happen again.