That’s a 10 year project if it wasn’t in a war zone.
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- Takes time, and probably more money than Iran would ask for in tolls.
- Still within drone range, so won't necessarily stop Iran
- Oil wells are within drone range, so even if shipping is solved Iran could still blow up oil production.
- Very expensive, especially if Iran folds in a month.
it’s a boring solution
US wanted to do something similar with nukes in the 60s
Project Plowshare - the ultimate hammer looking for a nail.
The Ben Gurion Canal was a plan to bypass the Suez by blasting a canal with nukes, through what is now israel
Not gonna lie getting a big budget to fuck around with explosives in the desert sounds like a dream job.
There's a number of cities there now, so it's not really an option anymore.
What’s never mentioned in these discussions is the UAE actually built a railway that bypasses the straight of Hormuz.

Why so far back, just dig it near the "nipple" end FFS.
Jeez, what a bunch of maroons!
Pump the water up over the mountain. Put a turbine at the bottom on the other side. According to the law of conservation of energy, you'll generate the exact amount of power to pump the water up, so it wouldn't even cost anything to run.
Why even pump it? Let it evaporate naturally, and it will eventually just rain down on its own.
We are not completely efficient in energy, we lose a lot in the process. You will take more, and how do you not know that already?
I know it's an unstable part of the world but I think if you had a strong enough military presence around the pumping and turbine stations you could reduce the energy losses to a negligible amount.
Energy losses are due to resistance. Military can't do shit. Have you read anything about electricity? Specific resistance and all. It's basic information, look it up.
Energy losses are due to resistance
This is exactly why a military presence is needed. If the military can quell the resistance force fighting against the canal/waterway, then the energy losses from sabotage and theft would be minimized. A strong military presense is the only way to deal with this problem.
No military is capable of defeating thermodynamics - resistance has known activity on every region on the planet, and apparently on every body in the galaxy too. Just the cost of sending an occupation force to Jupiter would be ruinous, let alone Afghanistan.
Are you fucking with me? Specific resistance refers to the conductors, copper, aluminum, silver, etc. An amount is lost to to it, and over long distances it adds up.

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