Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Bi-Oceanic Corridor to revolutionize South America" video.

@pavel9652 You are absolutely right. That ship that was stuck in the Suez Canal was a Golden class container ship with a capacity of 24,000 TUE (20ft equivalent). Some of the longest trains in the world EVER are the iron ore trains in Australia and they have have 300 carriages. Even double stacked that's only 600 containers. Even if you doubled that again by using wagons capable of 40ft (or 2 x 20ft) that only 1,200 containers which would be 200 trains per ship. Imagine trying to do a couple of boat loads each day. Simple fact most people have NO IDEA how much stuff moves every day in the global economy.
2
That took anyone with a brain less than 2 minutes to agree with.
1
@kenvalentine5341 Great comment. Why anyone thinks its anything other than utterly stupid because of the basic logistical issues staggers me.
1
@pavel9652 I'm actually an American educated Australian aerospace engineer and come up against this crap all the time. Back in 2002 I met Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison Schmitt who mentioned Helium-3 which is a potential nuclear fuel and the only place its found in industrial amounts is the moon. So I went off to work in Australian's mining sector to get experience in building and operating mines. Here's 2 of my favorites, that show just how easy it is for people to just believe things at face value when they are said by powerful people. Jeff Bezos has claimed that he wants to take things like iron production from iron ore into space where there's plenty of cheap energy and the pollution isn't a problem. One mine I worked at makes the math really simple. Tom Price produces 20 million tons a year. Iron ore ranges from around 55% to 95% actual iron content by weight. 70% is what we'd call good quality iron ore and it makes the math really easy. The Space Shuttle could lift 30 tons into orbit and 16 to the ISS BUT it could only land with 14t. So its pretty easy to see that those 20 million tons out of Tom Price would require about 1 million Space Shuttle flights to get it back down. Here's the problem. Right now Australia produces around 825 million tons a year which is less than 1/3rd of the world's production of about 3,000 million tons. Other than the insane amount of fuel it would require lifting it all into space the bigger problem is the heat generated in slowing 2,000 million tons of iron plus the mass of whatever we'd use bringing it back down. We'd literally burn the atmosphere off the planet. Better still is Elon Musk's claim that we can terraform Mars. When you do the basic calculation of how much air by weight it would take just to cover Mars with an Earth standard atmosphere 1km thick which is only a fraction of what would be needed and does not even begin to deal with how you'd keep it attached to the planet with only 1/3rd the gravity and no magnetic field to protect it from the solar wind you get an answer of about 173 Trillion tons. I'm still wondering where Elon and his band of deluded follower think they are going to get 173 Trillion tons of air or how they think there going to get it to Mars and then keep it attached to the planet.
1