THE ERA OF TRUMP

[TheReal_ND]

Fine. We can put solar panels on it.

[Smitty-48]

^ I'm with you, I like that idea way more than a train to nowhere

I can go to a track, but that's just going round and round, I'd like to add an intinerary to the drive, can you imagine Hollywood to the Redwoods, Cannonball Run? Now that, is 'Murica fuck yeah.

The toll would be set by the amount of traffic, to keep it from becomming jammed up, the more people use it, the more you charge to use it, the high end cutomers will pay the premium, to Cannonball, SF to LA, LA to SF. Who wants to fly, when you have a tight whip that can clip along at just under two hunge? Have another one that goes straight to Vegas as well.

[Speaker to Animals]

I have an idea. What if you built into the wall itself a cargo pipeline that would transport entire shipping containers to another port in the Gulf of Mexico more cheaply than it would cost to continue sailing through the Panama Canal?

You could eventually fork off branches to move goods to industrial centers as well.

The border security would be secondary.

I like it. I've wanted a cross country bank tube thing ever since I went to Wisconsin and found out they don't have anything I like.

Apparently, Panama charges $82 per container. So you have to get the price under that, including the cost of unloading and loading containers at the two ports.

If you could make it cheaper to get cargo from Asia to Europe, for instance, by unloading the containers in San Diego, shipping them across a pipeline to Corpus Christi, and loading them onto new ships, then you could probably turn a profit with it.

I am not sure if that's possible, especially since the border wall would be circuitous and not really an efficient path. However.. you could build the pipeline in a straight shot, in conjunction with the wall and under the same budget. The money we make from the pipeline could go towards paying for elaborate border security on both borders.

A brief search on maglev rail indicates it costs about $0.07 per ton per mile. So maybe it wouldn't work too well.

[TheReal_ND]

The solar panels can charge the electric fence perimeter as well.

[Okeefenokee]

The solar panels can charge the electric fence perimeter as well.

Funny, but I'm not sure if they actually can.

[TheReal_ND]

Maybe with a capacitor?

[Speaker to Animals]

But then.. I was looking at only the price you pay for passage through the canal. There is the fuel cost to go all that distance as well. It might not be such a bad idea, but I am not sure where to get the data to calculate the costs.

[Okeefenokee]

Maybe with a capacitor?

Not sure, I'm just barely getting into in school, but they put out low amps.

Ah hell. I gotta go find something now.

[Okeefenokee]

But then.. I was looking at only the price you pay for passage through the canal. There is the fuel cost to go all that distance as well. It might not be such a bad idea, but I am not sure where to get the data to calculate the costs.

If we're talking about a maglev rail powered by the grid being fed by nuclear power, versus a big ass ship plowing through the water and a lot of friction on the power of diesel engines, then yeah, the railway wins.

[Smitty-48]

You have the Rio Grande in place already, just dig a canal through the Sonoran desert to El Paso, then widen the Rio Grande down to Brownsville.