[HN Gopher] The Dream of an Alpine Waterway
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The Dream of an Alpine Waterway
Author : teew
Score : 31 points
Date : 2024-06-28 10:52 UTC (1 days ago)
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| drewcoo wrote:
| > Newton's apple fell from the tree for the same reason as water
| flows downwards
|
| For the sake of the narrative?
| AtlasBarfed wrote:
| Johnny canal approves
| ur-whale wrote:
| This was back in the days when folks in Europe were still capable
| of doing really ambitious technical things.
|
| That particular project may have turned not to be economically
| viable, but it was at the very least thought of and studied
| seriously.
|
| That kind of burning flame has now died miserably, and all Europe
| is now capable of doing is keeping the lights on.
| metabagel wrote:
| High speed rail? The large hadron collider at CERN? Also, Rail
| Baltica...
|
| https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/16/the-high-speed-rail...
| throw-the-towel wrote:
| You mean the same Rail Baltica that has been delayed since
| forever?
| LargoLasskhyfv wrote:
| Don't know what you are talking about (in this specific
| context). The size of the pictured ships/boats/barges seems
| rather small.
|
| And thus would easily be matched or topped in capacity by
| anything rolling trough the
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotthard_Base_Tunnel , faster.
| ano-ther wrote:
| Is there a demonstration of the locks somewhere? From the patent
| it sounds like a tunnel that gets flooded which lifts the ship.
| The tunnel must be really large because it has to fit the ship at
| an angle and not just head on.
|
| https://patents.google.com/patent/US955317A/en
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