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The Golden Gate Barrage: New Ideas To Counter Sea Level Rise
waderoush writes "What do Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle, LinkedIn, and Intuit have in common? They're just a few of the tech companies whose campuses alongside San Francisco Bay could be underwater by mid-century as sea levels rise. It's time for these organizations and other innovators to put some of their fabled brainpower into coming up with new ideas to counter the threat, Xconomy argues today. One idea: the Golden Gate Barrage, a massive system of dams, locks, and pumps located in the shadow of the iconic bridge. Taller than the Three Gorges Dam in China, it would be one of the largest and costliest projects in the history of civil engineering. But at least one Bay Area government official says might turn out to be the simplest way to save hundreds of square miles of land around the bay from inundation."
I'm sort of neutral about Google, but drowning those other three companies in salt water sounds like a net plus to me.
Keep the heat on. Lets put a whole bunch more shrimp on the barbies! (They'll probably go extinct in a couple of decades anyway).
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
That should be good for a few feet of water.
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Oracle, LinkedIn, and Intuit have in common? They're just a few of the tech companies whose campuses alongside San Francisco Bay could be underwater by mid-century as sea levels rise
And all this time I thought Global Warming would be a bad thing. Is there any way we can speed this up, get those companies under water faster?
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
If Emperor Norton didn't come up with the idea, it's just ridiculous blue-sky dreaming.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
I thought it was a statement that one of those other companies just couldn't be counted on.
Our *three* weapons are fear, and surprise, ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
We see in so many movies that have underwater cities etc... they all have bio domes and seem to have their infrastructure and atmosphere all encapsulated, but I guess this could have happened over time instead of all at once, as this could be a sign of changes to come, if the sea keeps rising, then we could just need to start building a dome like encasement, allowing us to keep the buildings where they are without too much worry about moving or losing the investment of that chosen physical location.
You act as though the ground in San Francisco could sudden shift and tear the seawall apart.