Video Added: June 19, 2009
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Rebuilding New Orleans as a City At Sea may be its best protection from future disasters.
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Floating New Orleans | Mega Engineering | 01:58 | June 19, 2009 | 6955 |
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Transforming New Orleans into a City at Sea is a big challenge, but engineers have the technology to build it.
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Building a Floating City | Mega Engineering | 02:14 | June 19, 2009 | 7033 |
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One solution to counter the almost overwhelming environmental challenges facing Houston is to cover it with a giant geodesic dome.
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Saving Houston with a Dome | Mega Engineering | 02:06 | June 05, 2009 | 20545 |
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If a 21-million-square-foot dome over Houston were made of glass, it would collapse under its own weight. One alternative is the ultra-light ploymer ETFE.
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A Magic Dome Material | Mega Engineering | 03:22 | June 05, 2009 | 13148 |
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An underwater transcontinental tunnel connecting Alaska and Russia offers enormous benefits and but even greater challenges.
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Building a Transcontinental Tunnel | Mega Engineering | 01:54 | June 05, 2009 | 7264 |
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To dig a tunnel under the ocean floor, engineers can use massive tunnel boring machines, or TBMs, similar to ones used in the Swiss Alps.
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Tunnel Boring Machines | Mega Engineering | 02:43 | June 04, 2009 | 5935 |
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