What do you think about this proposal by Frank Didik?

Question

Proposal for a
Trans Global Highway by Frank Didik 2006 "I would like to go from New York City to London. By car. Before the end of my life, I would like to drive from New York City to Alaska and go through the AmerAsian Peace Tunnel across the Bering Strait, connecting the United States with Russia. From there, I plan to drive south along the trans Siberia highway and cross under the bay from Siberia to the Sakhalin Island (Russia), which is known for its natural beauty and enormous mineral and gas reserves. From Sakhalin, I will drive to Japan, via the Sakhalin-Hokkaido Friendship Tunnel and then to the main Japanese island of Honshu through the 33.5 mile / 50km long Seikan ocean tunnel (built in 1988), and on to Tokyo. From there I plan to go to southern Honshu and cross over the (existing) bridge to the southern Japanese island of Kyushu and from there, through the Korean-Japan Friendship Tunnel. Going through the open borders of the Korea's, etc etc www.didik.com/highway/

Planting more trees may help to some extent with CO2, I am told... and this highway is a much better investment than wars that are inefficient in terms of lasting solutions to problems.

Answer 1

Let me know when you have the money.

It's a bad idea - maintenance costs are already very high on highways poured onto stable ground - what do you think the costs would be in regions where you'd have to sink piers 8,000 feet into the ocean, and then another thousand feet into the sea floor?

Plus, it's safer, and in the long run more environmentally friendly, to fly coach from NY to London than it is to drive there (the average car produces 20 pounds of CO2 per gallon, and so the 2000 miles would mean 1333 pounds of CO2 in a 30 MPG car - whereas flying coach with an effecient airplane engine produces about 900 pounds of CO2 for same distance).

Answer 2

I just love the names he came up with for the structures (the AmerAsian Peace Tunnel, the Sakhalin-Hokkaido Friendship Tunnel, the Korean-Japan Friendship Tunnel).

I do not know what world he is living in but it sounds great.

When they complete these tunnels, they can make the Kum-Ba-Ya Bridge to the Moon.

P.S. I forgot to convert into pounds of CO2 it would take to build all of these, however, I’m quite sure that in Frank’s mind, he would drive a carbon neutral vehicle on all these trips.

P.P.S. Wow! I got so excited answering this questions that I’m breathing heavy. I feel bad, because now I’m emitting more CO2 into the atmosphere. Maybe later I’ll light a fart. This will also add CO2 but will be “Green House Neutral” because it will reduce atmospheric methane (a more critical Green House Gas).


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