Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long.
The news was broken by the financial news publication Bloomberg, which said that Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project.
The Saudi government had hoped to have 1.5M residents living in The Line by 2030, but this has been scaled back to fewer than 300,000, according to the report. It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
The stupidest idea for a city that I’ve ever heard has gotten marginally less stupid.
At least now you can get from one side to the other quickly in an emergency.
Not that they’ll even build these 2.4 km.
Ask anyone who’s ever built a house and they can tell you what a stupid fucking idea it would be to have a foundation that large.
Even if they somehow had some magical way to solve the foundation issue, with the original plan… could you imagine having to go from one part of the city to another for pretty much any reason? In a linear city? You better hope that other part is really close. Especially if it’s a personal medical issue or a dying loved one.
This is a good place to have elon’s little super tube!!
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I see this a lot and I’m not sure whether to attribute it to ignorance or racism, but Saudi Arabia isn’t the UAE.
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Lucky for them. The UAE is utterly incompetent at sewage and garbage. Pretty sure it’s because everyone running the stuff over there is either a relative of someone important or someone imported who wants to be seen as impressive.
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Drown you in paperwork
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Demand the most expensive version of everything since the most expensive one is better in their mind.
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More paperwork
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Demand you follow some weird standards that seem to be a mixture of old UK and lord only knows what
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Finally they agree to the project and they demand a discount
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More paperwork
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Demand to see entire system in operation remotely.
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Tell you they aren’t ready and are willing to pay for storage
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Wait five years and finally turn it on.
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Its more likely that they’re directly next to each other but the uae gets more coverage but is much much smaller.
You might be surprised how many places have a system like that in the developed world.
This is truly the most moronic project ever, but at least I had a good laugh about it today.
It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
I got a brilliant idea: extend it slightly to the sides, maybe in a round shape. This allows for a more efficient way to house a high concentration of people.
Huge waste of time and money. That effort could be focused on many better and more reasonable projects. This is what happens when fucking idiots get a ton of money inherited from their parents. We should never have relied on Saudi oil, it’s been a drain on humanity.
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I think at that point it’s a town.
desert sun’s rays nuke the lake in front of glass wall/city
“Where lake go?”
That’s not a big problem since this is in a desert. Getting any water there in the first place is the problem. And, based on the mockups I saw, there’s supposed to be a lot of greenery.
It would just fry anyone who stands there for more than five minutes.
1 mile is not a city. it’s smaller than the park next to my house
I guess they read about China’s recent success with a fusion reactor.
How recent are you talking and by what measure of success? Because I’m not finding anything when I search and, as far as I know, the world is still a long way away from fusion as a practical energy source.
So by “recent,” you meant 2022 and by “success,” you mean running 17 minutes.
How long do you think you can power a city with those 17 minutes of fusion?
Because my guess is around 17 minutes.
It’s a substantial leap in proof of concept. The previous record was 17s. They’re opening up all research that led to the success, with many scientists claiming potential for controlled applications within 20 years.
Even improved harnessing and storage of 158M°F could allow the reactor to work in modulation. It’s a big deal in the science community.
“Many scientists” like the ones who have been claiming that my entire life since the 1980s?
Can you show me any of their peer-reviewed journal articles that say so?
And considering your definitions of “recent” and “success” turned out to be a little on the untrue side, I’m not inclined to believe your “big deal” claim either.
You do know the difference between a peer-reviewed journal article and a regurgitated press release on a site called ‘Nuclear Newsire,’ right?
