Nicaraguan Canal going to be built by Chinese company- three times as large as Panama Canal
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[QUOTE=Feuver;45328400]I don't think China's economy is going anywhere, with the world's dependency on it to make their plastics.[/QUOTE]
Chinas economy is rapidly cooling down, that's why you suddenly see all these big spending projects to project power even as their accountants are frantically trying to keep things going. Ya its still huge but the Chinese manufacturing economy isn't growing and the electronics jobs are also going to move out
Is that running through a freshwater Lake? If so that's gonna fuck up there fresh water supply, its one of the reasons why Panama is hesitant to make theirs any bigger than it already is.
[QUOTE=Flon22;45328256]But Panama is there already, and they have nearly finished another lane that allows ships nearly 3 times the size through (and will help cut down on all the congestion)
I suppose the only good reason I can think of is that Panama has gotten REALLY fucking expensive, a bit of competition would be good for the price.[/QUOTE]
It's expensive and it's congested.
absolutely [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_expansion_project"]unnecessary.[/URL]
[editline]8th July 2014[/editline]
and hey, at least Panama made sure to make the smallest possible environmental impact with the expansion, these guys are gonna cut an enormous environmental reserve in half to get this project done (which again, I consider quite unnecessary for the rest of the world seeing how Panama is expanding its waterway and how in the near future shipping stuff through the north pole will be feasible).
[QUOTE=Flon22;45328190]Oh sweet, its going through a rainforest with a higher biodiversity than the entirety of Europe
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and nothing will be done about it, business as usual.
The Panama Canal is being expanded as well...
You know what this calls for ladies and gentleman? A fucking canal going through California, Arizona, New Mexico, and then linking up with the Rio Grande. Not only would that give thousands of jobs to Americans and Mexicans alike, it'd give an incredibly valuable trade route.
Not to mention we could always file it under, "ohhhh its border protection" lol.
Edit: How plausible would something like this be by the way? Considering we could very plausibly connect the canal through the Saltine Sea, and the only real obstacle once you touch the border is Death Valley.
We're running out of Central American countries to exploit for water ways. It's terrible.
i wonder how much the instability of nicaragua will impact the construction time-table, you can't exactly get good help when everybody is being shot by cartels
Now we need to build a San-Francisco-to-Richmond canal to one-up theirs.
[QUOTE=pentium;45327953]Shh. It's a chinese construction firm. Everything is fine. No accidents or espionage going on here. Move along, please.[/QUOTE]
Once you get past the Chinese construction site facade, you will find a supervillain interior like Team Fortress.
[QUOTE=Feuver;45328400]I don't think China's economy is going anywhere, with the world's dependency on it to make their plastics.[/QUOTE]
Actually, the US is the biggest produce of petroleum based products. We have a fuck load of refineries so a lot of Oil comes to us to get processed.
I assume china will fuck it up and the us will build it and it'll attract
Investment and repair the economy and bring back factories and impeach that fucking communist socialist liberal obongo
[QUOTE=LoganIsAwesome;45329404]I assume china will fuck it up and the us will build it and it'll attract
Investment and repair the economy and bring back factories and impeach that fucking communist socialist liberal obongo[/QUOTE]
still can't take your posts seriously with that avatar lol
but that is an interesting side effect from the massive cash infusion for such a project, if china does use local labor it would greatly boost the local economy and provide jobs which might increase stability in the region, but being china they'll probably just import all the labor like they do for these projects and the only locally used labor will work hellish slave labor conditions
[QUOTE=Psychokitten;45329243]Now we need to build a San-Francisco-to-Richmond canal to one-up theirs.[/QUOTE]
The most "realistic" canal that could be built is something akin to this concept...
- Start at Tijuana River and go eastward until you meet up with El Centro, California.
- Go Northward and meet at the Salton Sea.
- Build a harboring/refuel depot in this area.
At this point, you have three choices on how to go about the rest of the canal or trade route...
1. Stop the canal here and construct a railroad depot which can be used for the offloading and onloading of supplies from this region.
2. Construct the rail depot, and begin constructing a canal that'll link up with a section of the Colorado River near Yuma.
3. Construct the rail depot, and begin constructing a canal that'll link up with a section of the Colorado River near Lake Havasu.
Assuming we are trying to make this fall under the joke of, "It's to protect our borders" we'll most likely do number two, and go from there...
By increasing the size of the Colorado River in this section, we'll be able to take the canal, and have it namely parallel with Interstate 8, until it links up with Arizona Route 85.
Ideally at this point, we'll construct it either to directly go through Phoenix, where another refueling depot would be made, or we can say fuck the Native Americans and drive it directly through their territory till it links up with Patagonia(the town). At this point, a new depot is built and we could also stop here, but ideally we can keep driving this badboy till it reaches the Rio Grande in Texas.
In doing so, we have a ~protected border~ and extremely valuable trading route which would give an economic boost to the Native American tribes in those regions.
Go out, pick up the first best rock.
[sp]China has invested in that rock.[/sp]
are they putting a canal through lake nicuragua which will flood it with seawater
[QUOTE=Kondor;45329850]are they putting a canal through lake nicuragua which will flood it with seawater[/QUOTE]
China is just trying to share their gift of completely disregarding the environment with the West.
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China will grow larger.
With ships getting bigger and bigger I wonder how feasible is it to use ekarnoplans for speedier logistics.
[QUOTE=adam1172;45331643]With ships getting bigger and bigger I wonder how feasible is it to use ekarnoplans for speedier logistics.[/QUOTE]
Ekranoplans are unsafe and are vastly overstated
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