Posted on 04/07/2024 2:24:40 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Why shipping choke points like Panama are FUBAR and getting worse. Long, detailed explanation of all the problems.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
The British gave up Hong Kong. We gave up the Panama Canal.
Pretty hard for us to justify on keeping the canal now that the age of colonialism is over.
Even if they fit horizontally there’s still the displacement. Bigger ships need more water to float them, this has to be available and takes time. One way or the other there’s a maximum capacity that canal can handle.
/sarc
Things can change. Just look at El Salvador. Maybe the Chinese will get involved and build the canal for them.
I thought glaciers were melting and sea level was rising?
Another 100 years, and the Pacific Ocean will meet the Gulf of Mexico - 25 feet ABOVE Panama.
No. The actual measured real-world global average sea level rise remains near constant at 2.4 - 2.5 mm per year since the first accurate measurements began in the 1920’s.
2.5 mm/year.
1 inch in ten years.
10 inches per century. 7.5 inches higher by year 2100.
1 meter in 400 years.
Think of the changes in weather if they actually did it! I can hear the screaming now....The later plan was to place nuclear bombs in a line across Nicaragua and set them off.
Mexico has been given a massive reward for invading our nation buy the chomo in chief and California. When California and Chomo Joe force electric rigs Mexico has time to build their infrastructure to take on the West Coast Bound freighters and ship them up to Arizona, New MeHEEco, or Texas.
Alas, it it isn’t to be. It would mean gainful employment for stupid people with strong backs, building dykes. It would mean more fish, longer growing seasons for more diverse crops. And, yes, the salvation of the Panama Canal. But global warming is a fraud. Sob. How dare you!, globe. Warm!
The Chinese have been involved in the planning of such a canal for some time. Whether it actually happens is another story.
Watch the video. It’s pretty fascinating. It explains how much water it requires to move a ship through the canal and it’s a phenomenal amount that desalination plants are unlikely to be able to supply. One ship passing through the canal uses as much water as 500,000 Panamanians do in a day. Roughly 36 ships use the canal each day during normal times. Also Lake Gatan supplies about half drinking water of Panama as well as water to operate the canal.
Salt water ruins the lock mechanisms so they use fresh water.
Yes, at times the government of Nicaragua was friendly. By them I assume you mean Nicaragua. I don’t think a canal in El Salvador would do much good...couldn’t reach the Atlantic side.
I did not know that.
I had not thought about that. Salt water is corrosive.
If so...why is the Plymouth Rock still above water level? I believe that the “scientists “ are full of sh**...mainly influenced by grant money.
Awesome!!!! Thanks!
Another limit was that the ships had to be low enough to clear the Brooklyn bridge. Even if they weren’t built there, they still could be later sent there for repairs.
Word salad puffery. They're old coots if they are bragging about using a mainframe architecture. They really need to drop in Alien Intelligence references instead.
AI could actually make this thing work. Robots can work both faster and slower than humans depending on the energy consumption advantage. AI slow robots could unload and load ships in parallel, using less strength and energy requirements. The dockworkers union won't let that happen in the USA, so Mexico, with their poor class having all migrated to socialist Amerika, might be the future.
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