Spain’s Plans for a Tunnel to Africa

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Spain and Morocco are considering building a 9.8 billion dollar tunnel across the Strait of Gibraltar, providing the first physical link between Europe and Africa. Due to the strait of Gibraltar’s geography, proposals for both bridges and tunnels across it have been seriously considered. However, nowadays, a tunnel is being focused on. If constructed, a tunnel would transform the local economies and boost intercontinental trade. However, it would also come with several issues. Despite this, the concept is being seriously pursued today and could soon be constructed.
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@triggerwarning7662 3 года назад

There are already underwater electric cables between Morocco and Spain. There is also a gas connection from Algeria via Morocco to Spain.

@takasmaka820 3 года назад

Cables arent even close to tunnel

@jr-bw1lt 3 года назад

They don't drill under the sea to instal cables Unfair comparison

@triggerwarning7662 3 года назад

@@jr-bw1lt @Taka Smaka yes the point is that he says there are potential to do these things when these things are already done

@knockhello2604 3 года назад

@@triggerwarning7662 said trigger warning lol

@mehrojsharofiddinov276 3 года назад

@Knock Hello he says there are potential to do these things when these things are already doneseveral engineers have designed bridges on various alignment and with differing structural configurations.

@petrhajduk9955 3 года назад

3 % too steep for high-speed rail? That must be a mistake. HS trains can usually climb up to 4 % grade. However, it is usually too steep for freight trains, but probably doable with some extra loco power.

@sanchitkumar6945 3 года назад

Yes. Incase of steeper slopes, one could prefer rack rails and ofcourse the extra locomotive power.

@FuturologyChannel 3 года назад

You are right, I someone how missed this. Thank you for the correction.

@triggerwarning7662 3 года назад

No you are wrong and right - the gradient is too steep for the high speed trains under EU law or similar. I have read a report on this a few years ago.

@Lucas_Antar 3 года назад

@@triggerwarning7662 so not too steep for reality but too steep for that long drawn out bureaucracy. Great.

@triggerwarning7662 3 года назад

@Lucas Thompson Bureaucracy is not the issue here. It's more to do with the source of funds and that Morocco cannot be connected to any other countries to promote through-trade to Europe by rail - the border with Algeria is closed, there is no train link to Mauritania and the only rail system they have there is to the dessert phosphate mines and not south towards Senegal and The Gambia. West Africa does not run to the Standard gauge that Morocco does and Spanish HSR does. The train in Morocco only goes up to Marrakesh currently. That's almost 500km away from the border with Mauritania. The first bit goes through mountains (which is a marginal issue as the line is being extended to Agadir on the other side of the mountains, but the rest will be tracks through the dessert and will have a significant cost, just to connect it to Mauritania which has no real exports except minerals which are fine to ship by slow boats.

@FuturologyChannel 3 года назад

Hey guys, I want to make a couple corrections! At 6:08 it's stated that 3 degrees is too steep for high speed trains. In reality, 3 degrees is too steep for freight trains, which I confused. Also, at 0:55, I said east when I meant west. My apologies!

@je4a301 3 года назад

Are you sure about that? I think that this would be a game changing point since I don't think it is economically feasible if only passenger trains would be able to pass through. Therefore, trade wouldn't benefit by any means. And this is critical considering that the purpose of the channel tunnel e.g. is partially for freight and considering that the demand for a freight line between this route is probably way higher than the demand for passengers. This is even more true when other African countries have developed even more and demand the connection for trade to Europe.

@corner63 3 года назад

But in railways engineering they talk about %, not degrees. Check it.

@FuturologyChannel 3 года назад

@@corner63 Ahaha, very interesting. It seems I was correct initially then. Thank you!

@mrtyke3708 3 года назад

@@FuturologyChannel Yes high speed trains can do grades up to around 4% since electric motors are usually places throughout the train for better traction and acceleration/deceleration as well as the fact that they are lighter than freight trains. Freight trains though with the only power usually coming from where the locomotives are at the front of the train have a harder time tackling grades. They can do grades of 3% but that can often require helper locomotives or splitting the train apart making it costly, time consuming and potentially dangerous ie: runaway trains. The freight industry likes a max grade of 2.2% as the standard. So it may be feasible to make the tunnel at a grade of 2.2% to make it easier for freight to be hauled through the tunnel.

@portibolivia 3 года назад

You also said at 0:55 to the East when you actually meant to the West.

@susactivities_ 3 года назад

Yes you uploaded! Your vids always cheer me up

@gustavam 3 года назад

I notice and appreciate your work on your diction. When I started out doing voice over work I was told I had a particular speech tone pattern that I was fixated on. It took a lot of work to get out of. Cheers!

@revilomec 3 года назад

I am from Spain and it’s the first time I hear about this. Didn’t know there were meetings just a couple of months ago!

@lugburz-shak4629 3 года назад

hola

@IVANGARCIA-ks4vp 3 года назад

This nonsense has been around for years.

@afonsodeportugal 3 года назад

Do you Spanish people agree with this? I find this proposal insane! Don't you guys have enough troubles at Ceuta and Melilla already?

@lugburz-shak4629 3 года назад

@@afonsodeportugal im surprise by your name, also yes there os many problems that with some answers and coments i Saw here i m more afraid of. Morroco is also claming these and orther territories and the number of ilegal inmigrants here are Big idk how of them were cheated , how of them want annoy, idk also here there os not a good ecpnomy, Ty socialism and ministeries Without purpose (etc), we are nastions very diferent. About coments confirming me about they want Sahara to them for sure, that they say about migration being inversed (idk but for sure not illegal), and that our country suck and that a thing that just us can say! xd (little joke +- true in end)

@afonsodeportugal 3 года назад

@@lugburz-shak4629 I have nothing against Moroccan people. But the problem here is that the Moroccan authorities are unable to control the influx from immigrants from other parts of Africa. I'm not blaming them, the sub-Saharan African immigrants are just way too many to be stopped. Thus, if a tunnel is built between Morocco and Spain, the freeloaders will have a highway to reach Europe. They already arrive by boat by the thousands, nearly every month. If they are given a safer route, they will use it. Or at least, they will try to use it.

@simisthegoat 3 года назад

Another exciting video!! I hope you won’t stop making this AMAZING videos!!!

@eukarya_ 3 года назад

To all the comments saying this is between Britain and Morocco: What? Britain only controls the rock of Gibraltar which is very small and is in the the deepest section of the straight and also further away from Africa, the waters of the Straight are split between Morocco and Spain. The tunnel will be construed in Spanish and Moroccan territory.

@benmcmenamin4851 3 года назад

I have seen that Britain is tunnelling from Gibraltar to Morocco but it was Spain’s idea but Britain jumped on the idea.

@eukarya_ 3 года назад

@@benmcmenamin4851 I don't think they can do that because they enter Spanish territorial waters.

@juanmola2000 3 года назад

I guess some people have played Paradox games too much and think that the entire province is Gibraltar or something.

@jormugand5578 3 года назад

@@benmcmenamin4851 Where? Gibraltar doesn't have the room. They barely have enough room for the local population and most of the underground area is taken by water storage cisterns. There is no financial or economic incentive for a tunnel to Morocco to run through Gibraltar.

@benmcmenamin4851 3 года назад

@@jormugand5578 Morocco and the UK see the Strait of Gibraltar, which is under British sovereignty, becoming the hub for a 28 km-tunnel that connects the two countries.9 Jan 2021 thearabweekly.com › british-... British-Moroccan undersea tunnel would connect Africa to Europe | Mohamed Alaou

@ReeseJamPiece. 3 года назад

Imagine a road network connecting all of the continents together, it'd be brilliant. A road trip around the world.

@ae-ke3eu 3 года назад

True..

@Beyonder1987 3 года назад

One belt initiative is going to make it happen. Its the start. Later it will be Americas connected to Asia and Australasia

@darthmaul216 Год назад

Rail would be a lot better then road

@saranshhajare3130 3 года назад

Why are there tunnels being constructed literally between every other island.

@Hession0Drasha 3 года назад

because sea travel is slow, everyone flies, with hsr less people will.

@Gnefitisis 3 года назад

@@Hession0Drasha You just forgot that the world also prefers trains over the hassle of post-9/11 flying.

@Marcelcovered 3 года назад

Because it’s cheaper

@CityWhisperer 3 года назад

@@Hession0Drasha More people travel on HSR than planes in many domestic routes.

@omarfilali6659 3 года назад

For not only sharing Kisses

@hamzasaid475 3 года назад

Thank you ,I was looking for this subject good article

@justaguynamednoah2234 3 года назад

Your videos are just consistently so good.

@mohamedsonofkemetegypt979 3 года назад

Hope fix map moroco sahara is cut .. Will be great for 🇲🇦 love 💕 from Egypt 🇪🇬

@fadi4741 3 года назад

Chokran ya akhi. LOVE brothers from EGYPT. Sahara Maghribia.

@adilben5354 3 года назад

True that 👍🏼

@marocmorocco655 3 года назад

Gracias hermano egipcio 🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦🇲🇦

@alibenomar9636 3 года назад

خونا و حبيبنا المصري..

@adilbo9148 3 года назад

Thanks brother ❤️

@hichammehditazi9945 3 года назад

On your picture , Morocco’s missing its Sahara , Nice vidéo Thanks for sharing

@zhiro_3 3 года назад

Sahara is not part of Marocco, they reclame but isn't oficially part of the country

@moncef9778 3 года назад

@@zhiro_3 the Sahara marocain

@nawfel185 3 года назад

@@zhiro_3 go check the history ignorant. The moroccan flag was & will always be there !

@sweetpotato1794 3 года назад

@@zhiro_3 Sahara is Moroccan I'm in it now ❤🇲🇦❤

@allocater2 3 года назад

Please more projects that have a good chance of happening or are actually already in construction.

@je4a301 3 года назад

Nice video. It would be great if you could ad numbers in the video regarding sources in the description so we could take a deeper look at it easier.

@geoffreythorberg2580 3 года назад

A 3% track gradient/incline is well within the specs of French and German High-Speed Trainsets. maximum grade : 4.0% minimum radius : 3,350 m maximum speed : 380 km/h The Cologne-Frankfurt line and others have larger gradients and the passenger trainsets are - full speed ahead.

@othmanealaoui2805 3 года назад

Both Morocco and Spain have High-speed trains from France, so it will work on 3%

@MattUK36 2 года назад

And Spanish one as well. Spain has the largest and best high-speed train network in Europe... and still growing

@MattUK36 2 года назад

@@othmanealaoui2805 Spain DOES NOT have French trains, they have Spanish ones and the largest high-speed network in Europe.

@danielrose1392 Год назад

@@MattUK36 They have foreign trains, Renfe Class 100 is basically a TGV Atlantique and the Renfe Class 103 is a German Siemens Velaro. By the way, once German DB received their Talgo 230, Japan Rail is to my knowledge the only operator running a purely domestic high speed fleet.

@oadka Год назад

Exactly what I was thinking!

@montyandmaryv9340 3 года назад

Yay you posted :)

@onkar8112 3 года назад

Quality content friend.. Quality.

@shaanz2.087 3 года назад

Excellent presentation

@ivansanchez143 3 года назад

Im Spanish and I can say that there is not going to be enough money for the tunnel. The politicians we have use all of them for their own benefits.

@thecakeisalie6392 3 года назад

El ministerio de (des)igualdad de la Irene Mentira se reclama otros 500 billones para publicidad de Unides Potemos y para comprarse una mansión en la Alpujarra.

@user-dm7hb4zf3w 3 года назад

So Gibtar has money to do this project....the union européenne and union africaine should finace this project not just two country

@itsnadaaaa 3 года назад

@@user-dm7hb4zf3w Gibraltar is an overseas territory of the UK, it doesn't have that much money lmao

@thedwightguy 2 года назад

@@itsnadaaaaONE New York, .com, or Russian billionaire reaches into their wallet, and BINGO...HERE'S your ten billions. I'll just not add another 200 feet to my already long yacht.

@APorLa16_RMA 2 года назад

Hmm I thought Spain was rich enough [I'm moroccan] but that'll be possible in the future

@Vincent-et1zc 3 года назад

I feel like another major issue with the tunnel is the recent hostility towards migrants coming to Europe considering Spain and other Mediterranean countries are shifting to the right, they could try to cast doubt on the project by claiming it will weaken Spain.

@interview8203 3 года назад

you realize the migrants just go to Spanish cities in Africa right? No point to use this.

@Vincent-et1zc 3 года назад

@@interview8203 yeah I realized that now, but most fail in making it to Ceuta and Mellia. The border walls were designed to hold off raids. The tunnel could just provide another option for those who fail.

@Hession0Drasha 3 года назад

Only if you don't have faith in those guarding the tunnel, it's really easy to guard a single point. I imagine that Spanish security will be on the Moroccan side, before entry.

@lordgemini2376 3 года назад

Aren't most migrants travelling from Libya to Italy? I didn't know the issue was in Morocco - Spain as well

@tomfuller4205 3 года назад

@@interview8203 They don’t actually, those cities are surrounded by border barriers

@gremlinonthewing..5477 3 года назад

I Love this Channel.... would you ever do a video in Malta and Gozo Tunnel that might get the Green Light this year? 🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹 or even the Channel Islands Planned Tunnel? 🇬🇬🇯🇪

@MariaNI-yf1bz Год назад

Correction, for a tunnel to Morocco. Morocco is a country in (North) Africa, while Africa overall is a continent, same as that Spain is a country in southern Europe, while Europe is a continent too. Further this plan is vice versa, and existed since 1900. Morocco's also came with several plans to connect "more" with Iberia; while the connection between both sides of the mediterranean was already there. Now with the WC 2030 bid between Iberia and Morocco this project has re started again. Good luck to these countries.

@petterbirgersson4489 3 года назад

Super interesting topic! This project should definitely be turned into reality. Furthermore there should be built tildal power turbines on the floor of the sea of Gibraltar strait. The currents are really strong there.

@jr-bw1lt 3 года назад

It's a horrible idea, the area is too geologically active

@mansourabubaker8411 3 года назад

Its a good idea difficult to make into reality.

@MrTonireyna 3 года назад

It is the worst idea. No thanks!

@mansourabubaker8411 3 года назад

@@MrTonireyna Why is it bad?

@MrTonireyna 3 года назад

@@mansourabubaker8411 the border of Spain and Morroco is the one with biggest GDP contrast in the world. If the border USA/Mex is a pain this would be worst by far.

@pedrofmc0000 3 года назад

Spain doesn't need nor wants that tunnel at all...

@adamwz248 3 года назад

It is gonna be between the Kingdom of Morocco and Great Britain ( Gibraltar).

@pedrofmc0000 3 года назад

@@adamwz248 I don't think so. Too far away. Tarifa is MUCH more near. Anyway, Spain isn't interested in that and could close the border with Gibraltar to avoid massive immigration. I don't think Gibraltar is interested in it at all either and more still with the last agreement between Spain and the UK regarding the border with Gibraltar...

@Beyonder1987 3 года назад

@@pedrofmc0000 gibraltor is Britian. Catlonia is not spain.

@pedrofmc0000 3 года назад

@@Beyonder1987 It's a really a curious thing because the UN recognize Gibraltar as a colony and there're several resolutions urging the UK to start talkings to Spain in order to give back the colony to Spain since the '60s of the past century. However, I don't remember to have seen Catalonia in the pending decolonization list of colonies of the UN at all (Nor Ceuta nor Melilla btw!) Have a good day. Forget politic and keep playing "Call of duty" kid... You know nothing about these subjects...😁😂🙄😎

@bassram3337 3 года назад

Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory

@san_kz 3 года назад

👍👍 please make video about water canal between Caspian sea and Persian gulf. It's interesting project

@Hession0Drasha 3 года назад

Hopefully this will encourage Morroco, Algeria and Tunisia to link their highway systems properly

@SuperCreeper38 5 месяцев назад

yeah no thanks. The Morocco-Algeria border is closed and heavily militarized for a reason.

@davidhimmelsbach557 3 года назад

It makes ZERO sense. There is simply not enough trade across the strait. Even the English Chunnel proved to be too expensive to build -- and the traffic between France and Britain is HUGE.

@kashattack 3 года назад

What do you mean? The Channel Tunnel has paid for itself many times over.

@morocco1636 3 года назад

Hey evryone welcom to morocco 🇲🇦🤗

@ismailkh1917 3 года назад

Everyone welcome*

@OnePieceOfATheory 3 года назад

Hi I’m from Gibraltar 🇬🇮!

@morocco1636 3 года назад

@@OnePieceOfATheory hi 😁🖐

@OnePieceOfATheory 3 года назад

@@morocco1636 have you visited Gibraltar

@OnePieceOfATheory 3 года назад

@Alex_Plante 3 года назад

They could probably build an intermediate project whereby two artificial islands were made, one each off the coast of Morocco and Spain where the straits are about 50 meters deep, and build a bridge from each coast to the artificial island. Each island would then have a ferry port. The travel distance by ferry would then be reduced by 40%. Eventually a tunnel could be built between both islands. The tunnel would probably have to be partly bored, then where the channel is deepest or the rock more problematic, an anchored tube would be used. So if the thing is built, it would probably be a combination of all the proposals.

@curious5887 3 года назад

Good video

@williamadams2361 3 года назад

We should be careful about money usage. if you're not spending to recover, then stop spending..

@smithwillison6345 3 года назад

Rich people play the money game to win. poor people play the money game not to lose. the goal truly is, the rich people always want massive wealth, the poor sees a surplus as an opportunity for consumption instead of investing it...

@alanfuller7176 3 года назад

@Chris Davis We have to change our mindset and do what the Rich does, with the little we earn, which is investing it. The world is changing..

@danhanson5314 3 года назад

@@alanfuller7176 Talking about what the rich do to earn more money, can you risk loosing 20% - 30% of your investment if it does not go in your favor. Can you stand it?

@ericrobert4651 3 года назад

@@danhanson5314 To me I believe that investment is meant for the already rich, the rich invest their money in commodities, bonds, stocks, and now in crypto. when they are tired of working all day long having sleepless nights.

@carsoncordelli9557 3 года назад

@@ericrobert4651 I will partially accept this claim.

@nf2155 3 года назад

I would love to see about Indonesia's new administrative capital in Borneo Island. That's so fascinating coz the design has some "jungle-ish" and "water-ish" touch, represent the country itself

@linusfotograf 3 года назад

Please do a video on the possible bridge/tunnel across the Baltic sea between Sweden and Finland.

@clfung2008 3 года назад

Looking forward for such a gigantic project to materialize !

@vasilisyiannouras951 3 года назад

Do a video for the projects in Limassol Cyprus 🇨🇾🇨🇾

@bln3615 3 года назад

0 physical connection ? Just Asia, almost nothing.

@quidam_surprise 3 года назад

You didn't understand what he meant.

@NiclasHopsi 3 года назад

Transport through the Asian Arabic countries is practically impossible due to closed borders and difficult requirements for cross-border traffic

@bln3615 3 года назад

@@NiclasHopsi Difficult or not, there is always a physical connection.

@eddog6666 3 года назад

I tunnel is a good idea. To get cargo from Spain to Morocco it takes 6-14 hours depending on the busiest part of the garbalter straight. Otherwise it would be a very expensive flight due to running out of fossil fuels. Or sending cargo through France, Monaco and Italy to a port and a lot of African countries there are at odds. Or they could send it around through Turkey guess what? That route is chalked full of civil disrest. And some are even at war with each other on among a civil war making only 12% chance of success

@dinis8271 3 года назад

@@bln3615 Absolutely not. There is absolutely no direct physical connection between Europe and Africa. Not even Asia due to the Suez Canal.

@williamr.s.5693 2 года назад

I really like the idea of this particular tunnel.

@cliffwoodbury5319 3 года назад

with the introduction of highspeed rail frieght trains it owuld be a huge money maker

@Franzuino 3 года назад

Take the euro tunnel as an exemple... Although I love the project and traveled many times thought it. It a economical disaster. Fire damage that take year to repair, immigrants that sneak in paralysed the traffic to often. Just imagine that with a longer tunnel and more social disparity at either end. It's going to be a disaster

@jamess5415 3 года назад

Giant catapults! Problem solved.

@dalius6633 3 года назад

Now you are thinking with portals!!

@alparslankorkmaz2964 3 года назад

Nice video.

@redwoodpartisan2433 3 года назад

This channel makes me always excited to hear about new infrastructure projects. The more I hear, the more I get interested and the more I believe they’re vital to humanity’s development

@craigh2205 3 года назад

same hear its also good he has choosen a good video format /editing style which makes his videos better

@redwoodpartisan2433 3 года назад

@@craigh2205 yeah it’s very nice and easy to follow his format

@simisthegoat 3 года назад

I agree with you.

@djordjerasic7482 3 года назад

videos are fun and informative but not a single one of his videos projects has been realized

@TalwinderDhillonTravels Год назад

The reason these videos are nice to watch is because for the most part they are BS😂

@funny-video-YouTube-channel 3 года назад

Eventually it will happen.

@nunomartins2209 3 года назад

Nope

@Alexandre-ur7qb 3 года назад

@verdikulk6193 3 года назад

Don't think so, to instable location

@abcdefghijklnmoqrstpuw2201 3 года назад

@Sorin Predator how we in mainland europe r suffering way more

@G73Server 3 года назад

I really hope, would only make sense

@peteregan3862 3 года назад

Large capacity power cables in the service tunnel to just too expensive compared to just laying the cables on the ocean floor. Terrorism and irregular migration are the main issues for tunnels - the situation would be the same as at Channel Tunnel. Hard rock tunnelling is relatively cheap with TBMs - they use rollers to fracture the rock face with pressure rather than gouge or grind it. At the depth proposed, they will not find the slop encountered tunnelling under the Alps. 3% grade is not an issue for trains - a slower speed as grade increases for just 40 km will just a few minutes to service times. Freight trains would just use extra locos in the tunnel. However, without a few red herrings the vid would get less viewers.

@d.g.rohrig4063 3 года назад

To take care of the grades and distance required at each end, perhaps a dual upwards spiral design at said ends would facilitate this issue. Just a thought..

@ezzatelbially8736 3 года назад

I would like to watch a video on your channel about the prospect of a tunnel or bridge between Egypt & Saudi Arabia at the mouth of the Aqaba gulf?

@eirikvagen3669 3 года назад

Nobody: Futurology: TUNNEL TROUGH THE SAHARA

@yassinerh7709 3 года назад

Fact Futurology: TUNNEL THROUGH YOUR ASS

@triggerwarning7662 3 года назад

He changed the thumbnail of the video to show the full map of Morocco lol

@FadiMARc 3 года назад

But the line lmao makes no sense

@sciencevids1101 3 года назад

3:27 Fun fact about the Channel tunnel or "The Chunnel" is "How deep is the Chunnel? At its deepest, the tunnel is 75 meters (246 feet) below the sea level. That's the same as 107 baguettes balancing on top of each other". - Eurostar.

@MrSquareart 3 года назад

Interesting video!! I have seen this video three or four times!

@gavjlewis 3 года назад

All they need to do is Tweet Elon saying I bet you can't do it? Job done! 😁

@cezarcatalin1406 3 года назад

Elon will deliver a disappointment, just like he did with the Hyperloop.

@jakobsollner4846 3 года назад

@@cezarcatalin1406 Hyperloop turbo cringe

@OenopionOenopion 2 года назад

I have a hard time believing that this would be a worthwhile investment, and it would be problematic for EU border control. There have to be a lot of other more worthwhile rail project across Europe.

@user-hh8yc9eb2k 10 месяцев назад

It could be the bridge between Ceuta, a city in the African part of Spain, and the rest of Spain in Europe

@tobiwan001 3 года назад

I wonder for how long the old building of the ECB will be used in videos. They have been in their new twin tower since 2015.

@irfanullahkhan6379 3 года назад

Thank you

@yodef6828 3 года назад

It also has to be taken into account that people could use the tunnel as an "easier" way to go through the straight of Gibraltar, this could cause several accidents and would need incredibly high security to this to not be an issue, and not only because of the illegality of this, but because of the danger of crossing a closed railways in a rather dark tunnel.

@craigh2205 3 года назад

give it about 3 years with the amount off tunnel videos u have/will make u can lunch your own interesting dedicated tunnel channel lol, not complaining tough coz i have watched all off them and liked them all

@Talkinglife 3 года назад

Nice one yeah

@MassNssen 3 года назад

Are fast trains physically incapable of climbing a 3 degree incline or will it just have to slow down?

@Ilyasmos 3 года назад

The project that will never realize

@smaanan 3 года назад

Why do you think so?

@Qingep 3 года назад

This is gonna be a great project and probably will help Spain and Morocco's GDP

@baha3alshamari152 3 года назад

No it's a terrible idea and will destroy them both

@rosamerino8516 3 года назад

I am spanish and i dont want yo be helped

@lugburz-shak4629 3 года назад

there many problems internaly spain and betewn spain and morroco that make it imposible

@alessbritish228 3 года назад

This will just make refugees come faster and the Islamic invasion to Europe will be even worse.

@tareqbk1870 3 года назад

@@alessbritish228 come faster? mate if we want the fucking europe to be full of africans we could do that easily without the need of a tunnel we just need to say "here's the way, go" to africans and yaaay :)

@michaelclement1337 3 года назад

Did they explore the option of having the tunnel sitting on the sea bed? If that's feasible then the depth would be less helping a little with the 3% incline problem

@RoScFan 3 года назад

Yeah. I dont get why it s easier to dig UNDERNEATH the ocean and not build on the ocean floor. Sure, floating tunnels are unproven and probably this is unproven as well, but there's a lot fewer variables that could go wrong with tunnels on the sea floor over floating tunnels. It should have been attempted by now.

@michaelclement1337 3 года назад

@@RoScFan There's one across Sydney harbour. The water depth is less so that could be a factor in construction

@mehrojsharofiddinov276 3 года назад

@Michael Clement I guest the explore the Wong with tunnels on the sea floor over floating tunnels for the Spain Government and Morocco Government to teach the variables straight edepth extends 900 meters for of the declaration.

@michaelclement1337 3 года назад

@@mehrojsharofiddinov276 I guess there would be technical difficulties in preparing the sea floor at 300 metres deep that doesn't happen in shallower locations

@zacharylahlou9943 6 дней назад

Correct your title. Morocco and Spain are building a tunnel connecting Morocco and Spain

@dortkommendieclowns1474 3 года назад

Perfect for people smuggling, see UK - France

@CityWhisperer 3 года назад

People smuggling between the UK and France don’t get on an Eurostar nor do they go through the regular car-taking train, it’s too guarded. They just cross the border by water.

@rolandtours8404 3 года назад

@@CityWhisperer Nevertheless, the tunnels would facilitate illegal migration. A lot of the migrants can afford seats on buses and rail. Safer and cheaper than a smuggler dingy across the Strait or the Mediterranean. Spain and the EU do not have the will to control migration.

@CityWhisperer 3 года назад

@@rolandtours8404 lmao of course they do. Do you know how much money the EU pays Morocco to control their border? They've given them lots of money to buy equipment and make the border more difficult if not impossible to cross and jump. Unlike what they want you to think they've got their border protection policies very clear and will pay 3rd countries to do the "nasty" job.

@james5460 3 года назад

These panacea projects always look good on paper and in the imagination. They don't always make sense, though. There's a bridge in Greece across the Gulf of Corinth that is so pricey that the nearby ferry services are doing great business because they're cheaper than the tolls. There's nothing in that area of North Africa that is so important that it needs a tunnel or bridge crossing.

@juangomezfuentes8825 2 года назад

Yeah, that is the main thing. The EuroTunnel connects London with Belgium, Holand and Paris. This one will only connect the poorest part of Spain with the Poorest part of Morocco. And the rest of the populated areas of Africa are so far and are so poor that makes no sense.

@megamillionfreak 2 года назад

Yeah but it’s about importing third worlders into Europe as part of the Replacement Project.

@sayblood8238 Год назад

@@juangomezfuentes8825 tangier is definitely not the poorest city in morocco

@bluedeadpool7511 3 года назад

I feel like someday it will be possible to drive between all five green continents

@BeanOnTheFlipside 3 года назад

Can you make a video on GIFT CITY? Being built in india

@warriorson7979 3 года назад

0:20 Currently, there is zero physical connections between the continents of Europe and Africa. Middle East: Am I a joke to you??! 😑😒

@jr-bw1lt 3 года назад

That's asia smh

@ruzzsverion2728 3 года назад

Middle east is in Asia..

@quidam_surprise 3 года назад

you didn't understand what he meant 😕

@warriorson7979 3 года назад

@@ruzzsverion2728 EXACTLY. Asia is the physical connection between Africa and Europe.😑😒

@skygge1006 3 года назад

@@jr-bw1lt Eurasia? They are pretty much the same continents anyway

@Then.72 3 года назад

Next, they'll be a bridge from the Earth to the Moon

@MorgorDre 2 года назад

No, a tunnel!

@MrStevenAttila 3 года назад

This should have been made by a long time in my opinion.

@irvalfirestar6265 3 года назад

Wouldn't the access tunnel distance to the actual sea issue be resolved if we just turn it into a spiral ramp tunnel of sorts, like highway exit ramps and multistory parking entry points? If we could consider spiral tunnel ramps as a viable option, you could even shorten the portal's distance from shore to any distance that we want, and just cram the rest of the tunnel's length into the spiral itself. The price tag seems too low for such a project though. I mean this sounds more like a 20-30 billion USD kind of project rather than 9b.

@lazrseagull54 Год назад

High speed rail requires extremely gentle curves to keep the trains running at 350kmh.

@tanht8805 3 года назад

Complete the Morrocan map with his sahara think you

@Aetherguy-cb9bu 3 года назад

You got the map wrong, what you showed as Morocco should actually be part of Spain and France

@Hamzak2 3 года назад

What no only sebta ans mlilia are Spanish cities nothing in morocco belongs to france tho

@Cullaralex 3 года назад

Lol

@CryptoInvest-LunaticCapital 3 года назад

I starts to get anxiety attacks, when he starts to say, "Unfortunately..."

@mrbillhilly343 3 года назад

There is a tectonic fault line between the two continents.

@davidbrown9093 3 года назад

Good look on the migrants.

@Cadisetrama1 3 года назад

A tunnel would transform the local economies and boost intercontinental trade between Morocco and Spain

@idriveastationwagon1534 3 года назад

If the depth of the water will cause the tunnel to emerge far inland, they could make each approach a spiral, that way the tunnel wont have to emerge so far inland

@richardphillips8846 3 года назад

Go for it.

@rubinortiz2311 3 года назад

Anyone wanna take a drive with me from London to Cape Town?

@koketsok7391 3 года назад

I got the spare tires

@rubinortiz2311 3 года назад

@@koketsok7391 let’s do it then

@wiki8695 3 года назад

on what side of the road.. i wonder?

@OthmaneBouya 3 года назад

🔥🔥🇲🇦❤️💪🏼

@gjergjkastrioti665 3 года назад

Do a video about italy and albania. Was thinked to build a bridge

@milliyetci5672 3 года назад

Kastrioti is a vatican spy....

@susietunisie 9 месяцев назад

I heard there are already extensive tunnels connecting to, and along the coast of, North Africa...refer back to the tunnel take-out "earthquakes" in Algeria over the last year or so...running round to Bengazi apparently

@die4race 3 года назад

They should outsource it to the chinese they could finish it in 5 years 😄

@memofromessex 3 года назад

It'd probably spontaneously combust

@mehrojsharofiddinov276 3 года назад

@MemoFromEssex What is your address, I need tell me for street.

@Kevin-cw8of 3 года назад

The Chinese are planning a much similar tunnel but way longer and deeper, which themselves are having difficulty finalizing due to the hazards.

@hackman669 3 года назад

California should do the same with high speed rail connecting all major cities and reducing freeway congestion. China unified one of the world's biggest countries within less than 20 years while California could not even complete a rail line between LA and San Diego!!! Heck even Florida made a high speed rail connecting Miami to the Florida Keys using private funding!!!

@briantravelman 3 года назад

I would be very surprised if this happens. Spain is having a big problem with illegal immigration from Morocco, and this would only make it easier for them to come.

@hackman669 3 года назад

So they have a cheap workforce then! You have something in common with California!!!!

@zeronixata4545 3 года назад

Morocco cuts strategies relations with spain

@jve89 3 года назад

Racist!! (Jk😂)

@adamrayon884 3 года назад

Bruh, the only problem we have with Spain is its middling in the South Moroccan Sahara. And the thing you called an illegal immigration is just our boys wanted to visit Ceuta which is a Moroccan territory that has been colonized by Spain for a long long time.

@enriquee.m.6706 3 года назад

@@adamrayon884 A Moroccan territory based on what? Since 1415 it belongs to Portugal and then to Spain in 1580. There was not Morroco back then. Just different ethnic population living in different communities. Ceuta has never been from Morroco. So please, don't lie. Ceuta is an African territory that belongs to Spain since almost ever. But seems that Morroco, which of course is not a democratic country, doesn't like to respect other territories. You have conflicts with all the neighbors... The typical country that no one wants to have nearby...

@othmanealaoui2805 3 года назад

Such a huge project could be economically viable only if there is a regional and economical integration in the Maghreb region or in Africa as it's the case for the EU, then it can be financed proportionally by both regional parties.

@Tornaviaje05 3 года назад

Kings Juan Carlos l & Hassan ll created SECEGSA in Spain and also SNED in Morocco, as the twin Societies devoted to accomplish the phenomenal job (both Societies are still at work)

@alaeddinezouini9851 3 года назад

Wrong map.

@CR27KILLER 3 года назад

A marruecos ni agua!!...

@warmtide4582 3 года назад

the title should be Morocco and spain's plan to built a tunnel between Africa and Europe.

@EkainMunduate 3 года назад

3% grade is fine for high speed rail. Most LGV are 3,5 and Köln-Frankfurt 4%. The problem is Cargo!

@stopmotionpanda4434 3 года назад

You make this stuff so interesting. I used to find this stuff boring but now I'm invested in hearing about new infrastructure around the world. Thank you