New Design for Gibraltar bridge

Hi, all,

Are there anybody who is still interested in Gibraltar bridge?

Recently it was said that a tunnel is being planned:

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We actually have a creative idea to build an economical and feasible bridge which potentially can save billions of dollars compared with all existing designs or the tunnel. But we are not sure how we can promote the idea.

If you are a company or institution who is seriously interested and also can influence the outcome of the Gibraltar bridge, please reply to me.

Thanks and have a great day!

Jason Zhao and his father

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zhaojason2000
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Well you can patent a design but not a concept...

My concept for the Gibraltar bridge is a sagging bridge with a jet engine pointing upwards every 100 feet on both sides of the bridge and along the sag.

Then to level the bridge just run the jet engines...

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C Rivil

Actually as I describe my jet engine bridge and draw it...I can patent it but it applies to bridge use in general and not to some bridge in particular...but that's actually better. Patent pending...

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C Rivil

And my concept...as I first called it...is a specific element of a bridge design and is therefor a system. Patent pending...

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C Rivil

I remember watching the Extreme Engineering show on this and other topics. I hated that show. The only episode that I thought fell into the realm of possibility was the Bering Straight Bridge. A 50-mile bridge over fairly shallow waters and some of the technology had already been figured out on the Confederate Bridge in Canada (the ice problem).

"But a huge barge filled with oil has lost control of her systems and is heading straight for the bridge... Can the bridge stand up to the force of a fully loaded barge?... (few dramatic moments later) Everything's OK. The engineering team has seen to it that nothing bad will ever happen..." (not exactly how they played it out but not too far from it)

They changed it a few years later and had that nerdy guy climbing around on a few construction sites. That was far more interesting.

Some of the dumb ideas I remember:

- a floating tunnel across the atlantic

- the Gibraltar Bridge (not the idea of someone coming up with something that worked - more just the idea that they presented - it looked like it'd collapse under it's own weight)

- I think they had a mile-high building or some pyramid building in the middle of Tokyo Bay

They may as well have had an episode on building a dome over NYC.

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Brad Bishop

The problem with a bridge is that A) at the narrowest point, the Strait is still 8 miles (~13km) wide, and B) the Strait isn't exactly shallow...it's several hundred feet deep (200+ meters) and at one location is over 1,000ft (305m) deep. And one of the busiest maritime shipping lanes in the world to boot...

Froggie

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Froggie

100 ft? No way, I think you can go 100 meters easily!

"Captan, we need more power on engine 4,345!"

"Give her all you can Scotty, we've got to level the bridge before the Klingons attack!"

Oh, sorry, got carried away!

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PeterD

Instead of jet engines, how about hot-air ballons?

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PeterD

And of course when I said jet engines every 100 feet I meant...regularly spaced jet engines along the bridge and on both sides of the bridge.

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C Rivil

And what I really meant was...periodically spaced jet engines along the bridge and on both sides of the bridge.

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C Rivil

"C Rivil" wrote in news:1rTBk.39271$ snipped-for-privacy@bignews2.bellsouth.net:

Sure you didn't mean appropriately oriented, independently acting, reaction force application devices of any kind positioned symmetrically, or asymmetrically, in such a manner as to compensate for naturally occurring, or man made, steady and/or variable structurally destructive loads?

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Charly Coughran

No that's...regularly spaced but likely asymmetrically spaced jet engines along the bridge and on both sides of the bridge.

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C Rivil

Andy comments:

Wouldn't you save a lot of money by having just one BIG jet engine in the middle, and cables connecting it wo assmmetrically spaced contact points along the bridge....

It could be refueled by a dirrigible.....

Andy in Eureka, Texas

Civis Eurekus Sum

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AndyS

If the engine fails, down comes the bridge.

Whynot use a pipeline runnig from the shores to the engines? And where would the fuel for these engines come from? The bin Laden family or Mohammed Atta's survivors?

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necromancer en mickey mouse la

Andy writes:

You are such a pessimist !!!!

All we have to do is to pass a law that says the engine will not be allowed to fail....

... I don't think you understand the political think-do .....

Andy in Eureka, Texas

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AndyS

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Andy in Eureka, Texas \\ Or repeal a law, gravity

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Rick Samuel

I guess so. I always thought that the laws of physics overrode the laws of man.

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necromancer

On Sep 25, 8:33 am, necromancer

Andy comments. You are observant... Remember.... the US Supreme Court has ,.... BY LAW.... classified the tomato as a vegetable..... in opposition to every botanist and vegetabilist on planet earth.... go google it....

So much for "facts"

Andy in Eureka, Texas

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AndyS

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