Russia plans world’s longest tunnel - to Alaska
Russia plans to build the world’s longest
tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to
Alaska.
Russia plans to build the world’s longest
tunnel, a transport and pipeline link under the Bering Strait to Alaska, as part
of a $65 billion project to supply the U.S. with oil, natural gas and
electricity from Siberia.
A 6,000-kilometer (3,700-mile) transport corridor from Siberia into the U.S. will feed into the tunnel, which at 64 miles will be more than twice as long as the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France, according to the plan. The tunnel would run in three sections to link the two islands in the Bering Strait between Russia and the U.S.
The Bering Strait tunnel will cost $10 billion to $12 billion and the rest of the investment will be spent on the entire transport corridor, the plan projects. The tunnel would contain a high-speed railway, highway and pipelines, as well as power and fiber-optic cables.
Japan, China and Korea have expressed interest in the project, with Japanese companies offering to burrow the tunnel under the Bering Strait for $60 million a kilometer, half the price set down in the project.
Folks at Bloomberg seem to have beaten everyone to this story. Terrific potential, of course, for raw materials from Siberia and Sakha.
Thanks, Tom Moran
A 6,000-kilometer (3,700-mile) transport corridor from Siberia into the U.S. will feed into the tunnel, which at 64 miles will be more than twice as long as the underwater section of the Channel Tunnel between the U.K. and France, according to the plan. The tunnel would run in three sections to link the two islands in the Bering Strait between Russia and the U.S.
The Bering Strait tunnel will cost $10 billion to $12 billion and the rest of the investment will be spent on the entire transport corridor, the plan projects. The tunnel would contain a high-speed railway, highway and pipelines, as well as power and fiber-optic cables.
Japan, China and Korea have expressed interest in the project, with Japanese companies offering to burrow the tunnel under the Bering Strait for $60 million a kilometer, half the price set down in the project.
Folks at Bloomberg seem to have beaten everyone to this story. Terrific potential, of course, for raw materials from Siberia and Sakha.
Thanks, Tom Moran
Posted: Wed - April 18, 2007 at 08:08 AM