TRANSATLANTIC

TUNNEL
IQRA BATOOL
2019-CIV-4
PLANET EARTH :
 ATLANTIC OCEAN:
 Covering 20% of the earth’s
surface
 SECOND LARGEST ocean
basin in the world
 Volume Of 310km3
 Lies between the NORTH &
the SOUTH AMERICA and
EUROPE & AFRICA
TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL:
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TRANSATLANTIC MEANS
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CANADA
GREENLAND SEA SCOTLAND
5
5
5

NEWYORK CITY
2
1

1
1

LONDON

5 5

GREENLAND GLACIERS
LABRADOR SEA

TOTAL LENGTH OF 6300 KM

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 TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL : 8

NORTHERN ATLANTIC

NEWYORK CITY
2
1

1
1

LONDON

5 5

IRELAND
CANADA

TOTAL LENGTH OF 5800 KM

TRANSATLANTIC MEANS
9
STEPS :
TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL :
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TRANSATLANTIC MEANS
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TRANSATLANTIC MEANS
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TRANSATLANTIC MEANS
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AREAS OF FOCUS
FINALLY 12 TRILLIONS DOLLARS IS NOT SMALL FEE.
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 FIRST A CONCRETE FLOOR IS POURED ONCE THE FLOOR DRIES, WALLS
AND ROOF CAN BE POURED
 EACH 300’ LONG SECTION CONSUMES 30,000 TONS OF STEEL AND
CONCRETE
 THEN THESE PIECES ARE MOVED TO SEA AND JOINED TOGETHER LIKE
A HUGE LEGO
 EACH SECTION IS SEALED WITH STEEL BULKHEADS THAT MAKE THE
SECTION WATERTIGHT AND FLOAT.
 DOCK IS FLOODED AND THE TUBES ARE TOWED OUT INTO THE SEA
EACH SECTION TO ITS FINAL POINT BY IMMERSION PONTOON. ROBOTIC
MACHINES CONTROL ITS DESCENT
 TEAM OF DIVERS USING GPS INSTALL THE SECTIONS EXACTLY AT THE
RIGHT PLACE
 A SERIES OF TETHERS WOULD ANCHOR IT TO THE BOTTOM
 HUGE FLOATING PONTOONS HOLD THE TUNNEL IN PLACE FROM
SURFACE
RESOURSES
REQUIRED :
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 1 Billion tons of steel (combined output of all the

worlds steel mils for an year)
 Over 50,000 tunnel sections, each weighing
thousands of tons
 $12 trillion dollars
 Would take a century or more to complete
WOULD IT BE
WORTH THE
EFFORT?
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 The answer depends on speed

 Fastest way to cross atlantic was ship that take more than a week
 SUPERSONIC JET takes 3 hours only but it is expensive only a few can afford
 To make it feasible, need a train 20 times faster than fast working trains
 Maglev trains work like this
 EM field lifts the train up about an inch off the track
 Generators in track produce waves of magnetic energy that propelled the train forward
thus friction is eliminated and the speed is increased to 310 miles / hour
 But the faster you go, the more air resistance means more power to use.
 Pumping all the air out creates vaccum thus no air resistance.
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 Engineers at MIT placed the Maglev train in a tube that represents the transatlantic
tunnel , smoke is added to show air presence, the train slides slowly
 Then when air was removed its speed was tripled
 But how the human body would tolerate these crushing g-forces that would occur at
those speeds?
 The key to comfort would be controlled gradual acceleration
 Passengers would sit in pivoting rotating seats designed to reduce those shaking
forces with almost no shaking or joiting .
MIT EXPERIMENTATION : 23
PIVOTED ROTATING SEATS :
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BENEFITS :
OF TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL
IF COMPLETED
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BENEFITS:
FIRST PHYSICAL LINK BETWEEN AMERICA AND AFRO-EURASIA
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BENEFITS :
ITS HYPERLOOP SYSTEM WILL RUN ON GREEN ENERGY
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AREAS OF FOCUS
WILL UNITE THE COUNTRIES ON BOTH SIDE OF TUNNEL
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AREAS OF FOCUS
WILL UNITE THE COUNTRIES ON BOTH SIDE OF TUNNEL
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AREAS OF FOCUS
WILL UNITE THE COUNTRIES ON BOTH SIDE OF TUNNEL
PROBLEMS :
OF TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL
IF COMPLETED
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PROBLEMS:
A LARGE-SCALE SUBMERGED FLOATING TUNNEL HAS NEVER
BEEN BUILT.
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PROBLEMS:
PROJECT’S CONSTRUCTION WOULD BE IMMENSELY ARDUOUS
AND PROLONGED
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PROBLEMS:
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IN
DOZENS OF FACTORIES WOULD BE REQUIRED TO
MANUFACTURE 33000 TUNNEL SECTIONS AND STEEL CABLES.
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PROBLEMS:
TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS, THOUSANDS OF WORKERS IN
DOZENS OF FACTORIES WOULD BE REQUIRED TO
MANUFACTURE 33000 TUNNEL SECTIONS AND STEEL CABLES.
.
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PROBLEMS:
FINALLY 12 TRILLIONS DOLLARS IS NOT SMALL FEE.
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PROBLEMS:
TUNNEL FIRE WOULD BE DISASTEROUS
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PROBLEMS
IN CASE OF ACCIDENTS, IT WILL TAKE HOURS TO EXTRACT
PASSENGERS AND WRECKAGE .
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PROBLEMS :
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Yet despite the staggering cost and technical

challenges, visionaries believe that one day it
might happen. What we forget is how far we’ve
come. Things we take for granted today were
considered unimaginable yesterday. It seems to be
our collective destiny to turn today’s
impossibilities into tomorrow’s realities.
THANK YOU