The Channel Tunnel, which now connects England and France, would be dwarfed by the years it would take to build a transatlantic tunnel between the United States and Britain.
According to Newsweek, the 23.5-mile Channel Tunnel took six years to finish, and if a transatlantic tunnel is built at the same rate, the undersea wonder would take an incredible 782 years.
There isn’t a final transatlantic tunnel design, despite the hype. Ideas include a tunnel that is positioned on stilts, buried under the ocean bottom.
Or even a floating tunnel that is connected to the seafloor by wires. Every concept has a high cost and unique engineering difficulties.
The creator of Tesla thinks a transatlantic tunnel could be built “for 1000X less money,” despite the fact that some estimate it would cost $25 trillion.
This audacious assertion comes after the billionaire founder’s continuous efforts to revolutionize international travel with SpaceX’s Starship rocket.
