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2006-04-30 Europe
'Afro-tunnel' may be a bridge too far
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Posted by Steve White 2006-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Gotta have windmills in there. Means it's eco-friendly.
Posted by phil_b">phil_b  2006-04-30 00:09|| http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]">[http://autonomousoperation.blogspot.com/]  2006-04-30 00:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Aside visions of jousting with windmills, those tunnels could succumb to demolition faster than Jack the Bear.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-04-30 01:11||   2006-04-30 01:11|| Front Page Top

#3 Let the tunnel be built, provided it's designed by African engineers, constructed with African labor, and overseen by African construction firms, and most importantly of all, with African money.
Posted by Perfessor 2006-04-30 07:17||   2006-04-30 07:17|| Front Page Top

#4 ...5.4 billion Euros? Cripes, the paper shredders alone on the Big Dig cost that much...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-04-30 08:27||   2006-04-30 08:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Mike, the numbers are made up - just like the engineering. I'd said 1.9 Billion Euro and after 10 years the wind farm will buy every man jack in Europe a silky pony.
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