{"id":756,"date":"2007-04-27T20:05:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T00:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/04\/27\/the-russians-are-coming-but-will-we-e"},"modified":"2007-06-08T01:09:51","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T05:09:51","slug":"the-russians-are-coming-but-will-we-ever-have-a-fixed-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/04\/27\/the-russians-are-coming-but-will-we-ever-have-a-fixed-link\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russians are coming?  But will WE ever have a fixed link?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Times Online<\/em> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/europe\/article1680121.ece\">Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America<\/a>.  Yes, not only does Russia plan a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/5080732.stm\">floating nuclear power plant<\/a> (now there&#8217;s a bad idea if ever there was one), but now some folks there have a tunnel under the Bering Strait in mind.  Ok, so you could eventually take a train from Paris to New York (via Siberia), but this wouldn&#8217;t be for the tourists:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russian officials insist that the tunnel is an economic idea whose time has now come and that it could be ready within ten years. They argue that it would repay construction costs by stimulating up to 100 million tons of freight traffic each year, as well as supplying oil, gas and electricity from Siberia to the US and Canada.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems just as likely they&#8217;ll want our oil &amp; gas &#8212; not the other way around.<\/p>\n<p>But imagine a rail line from Paris to New York, though.  Oh well, here on Vancouver Island we&#8217;ll continue to muddle on in splendid island isolation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Online reports that Russia plans $65bn tunnel to America. Yes, not only does Russia plan a floating nuclear power plant (now there&#8217;s a bad idea if ever there was one), but now some folks there have a tunnel under the Bering Strait in mind. Ok, so you could eventually take a train from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1419,1482,1481,1418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cities","category-futurismo","category-transportation","category-victoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}