Trump's Wall

President Trump has told us he wants to build a wall to protect our nation's sovereignty. Regardless of party politics, let us change the basic assumption of a "wall and a road" to thinking about this as a much greater project that serves a much greater need for our society. A wall is a 20 or 30 foot tall structure that divides space. Two parallel walls ... can be a building. Trump's Wall could create a unique opportunity in history to create an environment, an economic ecosystem,...
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President Trump has told us he wants to build a wall to protect our nation's sovereignty. Regardless of party politics, let us change the basic assumption of a "wall and a road" to thinking about this as a much greater project that serves a much greater need for our society. A wall is a 20 or 30 foot tall structure that divides space. Two parallel walls ... can be a building. Trump's Wall could create a unique opportunity in history to create an environment, an economic ecosystem, that would attract people and create thousands of new jobs in both the U.S. and Mexico. One of the major roadblocks to ambitious projects in our modern era has been securing right-of-ways, the physical land necessary.Trump's Wall may be one of our last viable remaining transcontinental corridors for: Transcontinental Super-Conducting Power Lines running in Trump's WallSolar panel power generating array power transmission to population centers. Desalination plants and transcontinental fresh water pipelines for the American Desert Southwest. A transcontinental shipping container rail system running through Trump's Wall, an alternative to the Panama Canal. High-speed transportation systems located within the protective envelope of Trump's Wall. The wall could be built as a hub for a worldwide transportation system that would give us regular, reliable, economical access to Earth orbit to work, to manufacture, to produce. To build a manufacturing infrastructure in Earth orbit. For things can be made in space that cannot be made on Earth.To explore and utilize a new environment, space. To project ourselves beyond our world, beyond our world view, beyond how we now view ourselves. To become a spacefaring race. A project of this magnitude would require the awesome power of government and the boundless energy of a free people. Yes, there will be success and tragedy, triumphs and setbacks for, to engineer is human. We are ready, technologically. The question is, do we have the will to dare great things and the determination to see them through? This is what this book is about.