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Creative Proposals for "the Trump Wall" -- Hyperloop Along the Border and Others

posted by cmn32480 on Monday April 17 2017, @01:58AM   
from the that-is-NOT-what-we-expected dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

BusinessInsider reports on some creative solutions that have been submitted for "The Trump Wall"

Main link:
http://www.businessinsider.com/design-trumps-border-wall-hyperloop-2017-4

This aliases to:
http://www.businessinsider.com/design-trumps-border-wall-hyperloop-2017-4/#the-19th-century-brought-us-boundaries-the-20th-century-we-built-walls-the-next-will-bridge-nations-by-creating-communities-based-on-shared-principles-of-economic-resiliency-energy-independence-and-a-trust-based-society-the-designers-wrote-5

Homeland Security has put out a request for proposal and some of the submissions are truly creative. This article focuses on a joint Mexican-US proposal to convert land along the border to a neutral zone and build a Hyperloop along the border.

The Trump administration is reviewing design bids for its proposed wall along the US-Mexico border. But not all plans are interpreting the word "wall" literally.

A group of Mexican and American engineers and urban planners called MADE Collective want to build a $1 trillion hyperloop transportation network instead. The plan would turn the border into a shared nation, called Otra Nation, with an independent local government and nonvoting representatives in the US and Mexican legislatures.
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The plan would cost approximately $15 billion — less than the $21 billion that the Department of Homeland Security estimated a border wall would cost. The designers also predict that their system would create $1 trillion in trade.
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The group submitted its design to the US Customs and Border Protection's official call for proposals in March.

While this certainly wasn't what your AC was expecting, it appears to be a completely serious proposal from experienced builders and planners -- http://www.otranation.com/proposal

Other proposals submitted include:

MADE Collective is not the only one to submit a fantastical design for the border wall. Other proposals include a wall covered in solar panels, a binational park, and an "Inflatoborder" made of plastic bubbles.

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• Re:Hyperloop IdiotsRe:Hyperloop Idiots (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:02AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @04:02AM (#495093)

  Thunderf00t has a whole series on why hyperloop will probably not work. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thunderfoot+hyperloop [youtube.com]

  Basically they are proposing the worlds largest vacuum chamber. The effect of a failure will be along the lines of these
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9bpUfWy8Wg [youtube.com]
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N17tEW_WEU [youtube.com]

  slightly different variation but same effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0TQxYemrgg [youtube.com]

  *maybe* they have some super secret sauce that will make it work. But I have not seen it yet.

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• Re:Hyperloop tube structureRe:Hyperloop tube structure (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday April 17 2017, @04:51AM (1 child)

  by kaszz (4211) on Monday April 17 2017, @04:51AM (#495111) Journal

  Of course any tube built would be designed to be structurally sound which the videos show excellently what happens if they aren't. I would worry more about small imperfections that are less obvious.

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  • Re:Hyperloop tube structure(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @11:26PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 17 2017, @11:26PM (#495598)

    The mythbusters one showed it nicely. It worked right up until something dented it. Then POP.

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