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China Wants To Build An 8,000-Mile Train Line To The USA
China Wants To Build An 8,000-Mile Underwater Train Line To The USA
28 MAY 2021
BY JACK DUNHILL
Read More: https://www.iflscience.com/technolog...ne-to-the-usa/
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China wishes to build a high-speed, 13,000-kilometer (8,078-mile) train that travels from mainland China, up through Siberia in Eastern Russia, under the sea through the Bering Strait into Alaska, across the rocky peaks of Canada’s Yukon and British Columbia, and into the USA. Once constructed, they have could further extend their international bullet train into every corner of the US.
- The price of such an outlandish proposal? A cool $200 billion. A price tag so high, even the likes of Jeff Bezos probably couldn’t reach it. — It would be called the “China-Russia-Canada-America" line (catchy, we know) and stretch across all four nations, connecting them together for a trade, tourism, and economic boom. Stretching across the Bering Strait, it would require an underwater tunnel four times larger than the Channel Tunnel, and far more high-tech to boot. — At the time, engineers from China claimed to be already in talks with Russia about beginning the line, which they were very confident was possible with current technology.
- And despite just how far-fetched the proposal sounds, it could be perfectly feasible. In 2018, China approved the world’s first underwater bullet train, which would extend nationally from Ningbo, a port city near Shanghai, to Zhoushan, an archipelago of islands off the East coast. Covering a 77-kilometer (47.8-mile) stretch of almost entirely newly-built railway, the new route will include a 16.2-kilometer underwater section. It will be a Maglev train, levitating above a magnetic track as it is propelled along at high speeds, and construction is well underway for the ambitious project. — The Ningbo-Zhoushan line could be a test run of sorts for a far larger project.
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