Pretty impressive! Wonder where kbin instances fit in those stats.
Link says it’s not found for me
Hmm. Could the rivers be made navigable without hurting the surrounding ecosystem too much? Or maybe an artificial canal … but I suppose a new canal has many of the same problems that a new road (or roads) would entail…
The cost to bore tunnels would be extreme, and likely would deter investors.
I don’t have an obvious solution for that, but no one said park preservation and tackling global warming would come cheap.
On top of that, where do you put the waste rock, which can be metal leaching or acid generating.
I don’t know much about this, but as the tunnel is built, use it to truck out the waste rock, which can then be shipped outside of Alaska to be processed and handled in the usual processing plants in the US (or even pay to handle it overseas). Again, costs, but same answer as above.
The park can not be protected from global warming. It’s better to get clean energy. Though I wonder if this is a true binary choice - the decision to expand US mineral protection seems to speak of and to more isolationist views. Maybe the US could go clean using minerals from friendly foreign countries only.
That said, I wonder if we’re not being creative enough here. The english channel is 560 km long, so could it be possible to bore a series of tunnels for truckers to use to get access to the minerals without ruining the park?
It’s a shame that the mine isn’t closer to the ocean, otherwise maybe shipping the minerals on cargo ships could have been a more park friendly alternative.
I prefer the interpretation where BIN = Buy It Now. So get into kbin now, basically.
Can someone show me how to find this? I can’t figure it out.
Also curious if it’s possible to see who is subscribed to a magazine or who is following me.
Hopefully they just haven’t thought about that yet