photo: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Aike 2.0 / Russian Presidential Executive Office, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0The Russians offered the Americans an audacious idea—a combination of Russia and the United States, and thus Eurasia and North America, a railway tunnel that would be built under the Bering Strait. This arken separates Alaska from the Russian Chukota. According to the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the investment would cost $8 billion, and it would take little than 8 years to dig and finish the full tunnel. The thought emerges before the upcoming Trump-Putin summit in Budapest.
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RFPI), came up with a alternatively different idea. According to the proposal, the American Alaska and Russian Chukotka would connect the underwater railway tunnel "Trump-Putin", hollowed under the bottom of the Bering Strait.
This is not the first thought to build any kind of land-based infrastructure link between Russia and the United States. For 150 years, there have been proposals to build bridges or tunnels over or under the Bering Strait. So far no have been implemented, but this time, according to Dmitriev, fresh technologies can enable the task to be implemented and reduce implementation costs.
Among possible contractors of the tunnel under the Bering Strait are among others 1 of the companies of billionaire Elon Musk named after The Boring Company, or "Nude Company".
According to Russian calculations, the task would take $8 billion, and the construction would last little than 8 years.
Source: rmf24.pl
