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Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

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Re: Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

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Post by dgellow »

ant6n wrote: post #15
nairboon wrote: post #10

That's kind of cool. Norway also has roundabouts in tunnels. I guess they like tunnels.

I bet the cost-benefit is actually negative. But it is kind of cool, I guess.

Depends on the time frame, no? Such a tunnel will exist for a long time (I assume)

Re: Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

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Post by VorpalWay »

tuwtuwtuwtuw wrote: post #19
philipwhiuk wrote: post #18

I'm not hugely sure I see the point - it doesn't link to anywhere major. Is Måløy to Åheim a major route?

From Wikipedia: > The Stad Ship Tunnel (Norwegian: Stad skipstunnel) is a planned canal and tunnel to bypass the Stad peninsula in Stad Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The peninsula is one of the most exposed areas on the coast, without any outlying islands to protect it from the weather. The section has traditionally been one of the most dangerous along the coast of Norway. > The surrounding waters, known a…

"Stadhavet Sea", since havet means "the sea" (in both Swedish and (as far as I know) Norwegian), that is a terrible phrasing on English Wikipedia. It should be either just "Stadhavet" or "the Stad sea".

Though, to be fair, there are a lot of places with silly names like that. From what I have heard "Sahara Desert" translates to "Desert desert" for example. I seem to remember there is even a place that translates as "hill hill hill" somewhere in UK, using three different languages.

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Post by rob74 »

philipwhiuk wrote: post #18

I'm not hugely sure I see the point - it doesn't link to anywhere major. Is Måløy to Åheim a major route?

Not this specific route, but it would be very useful for the Hurtigruten ships that serve the entire Norwegian coast (mentioned in the Wikipedia article, actually the ship shown in the tunnel cross-section has the Hurtigruten livery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stad_Ship_Tunnel).

Re: Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

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Post by pixl97 »

eesmith wrote: post #6
StevenWaterman wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be very surprised if this was AI, it's too bad-looking. The lighting is all wrong, there's noticeable repeating rock textures

And they've been around for years. You can see a copy of that last image (3rd in the gallery) from 2017 at https://web.archive.org/web/20170707052808/https://www.ship-... and at https://newatlas.com/stad-ship-tunnel-interview-terje-andrea... . A copy of the first image in the gallery is at https://dozr.com/blog/stad-ship-tunnel dated 2021. Edit: ahhh, 2017 and 2021 were the previous two big announcements about the tu…

Heh, it's kind of funny to see how many things are called AI that aren't AI, remember that when we see discussions in HN saying articles are AI or replies are AI.

It's memeable in many cases.

P1 "AI pictures are bad"

P2 "But AI was trained on human pictures"

[Human picture]

Re: Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel

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Post by Semaphor »

dgellow wrote: post #22

Only 4 years of work to be ready? That sounds pretty optimistic ( crying in German )

Reading the Wikipedia page (including the originally projected end date of 2026), it sounds a bit worse. Probably not Germany bad, but I wouldn't bet on the 4 years either.
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