thursday, march 01, 2007
The Panama Canal
The Panama Canal, one of the greatest engineering feats in the world, is about to get even greater.A $5.25 billion expansion to the 50-mile-long waterway was green-lighted by an election last year and is now getting underway.
The whole project is expected to be completed in 2014, just in time for the canal's 100th anniversary.
The size of the current canal means that latest cargo ships can’t fit into its locks, and those that can squeeze in must sometimes idle offshore for weeks stuck in traffic.
By adding a third lane complete with new locks as well as widening and deepening the existing passage the current 226 million tons of goods is expected to at least double.
My story on the expansion project, The New Panama Canal, is in this month's issue of Wired Magazine.
thursday, november 02, 2006
San Francisco Hydroelectric Project
The tunnel dug by Odebrecht in Ecuador for the San Francisco Hydroelectric Project continues to garner interest from unusual places. In this case, Wired Magazine whose November issues features a short article penned by me, Such a Bore, as well as a few pictures - including the one shown here - I took whilst underground last May.