If
annual decrease in the area of the Arctic ocean icepack at some
future point brings development of direct shortest distance east-west
hemisphere ship traffic of containers, passengers etc from rail heads
in Europe and North America on the Arctic Sea littoral perhaps
Alaska and Canada each will have rail roads to points south. One
hopes that non-polluting electric systems are advanced in advance to
create less habitat displacement.
I
have wondered if Arctic sea-floor pipelines could be made to carry
cargo with self-driving cargo modules through the pipe. Self-driving
vehicles obviously have great potential for new transportation
infrastructures across not only the north, but in dangerous areas of
the world with a profusion of improvised exploding devices. It might
also be possible to have self-driving ferryboats wait for passengers
on seldom used routes, or for buses to self-drive as-needed when
enough passengers arrive.
Obviously
military uses for self-driving vehicles and weapons platforms exist,
yet it is in trans-Arctic and Lunar transport infrastructures that
the most interesting possibilities can be found.
N.A.S.A.
is looking into lithium and gas sulfur hexafluoride to power space
vehicles (ref S.A. Nov 2015 page 24), yet it might be that low
temperature superconductors will allow mass transit highways to be placed on the moon with some conducting wires dropped into place.
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