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The Big Dig
“The Big Dig was the largest highway project in American history. It was conceived in 1987, broke ground in 1991, and wasn’t completed until 2007. Costs rose from $2.3 billion to $14.8 billion. When the loan is paid off in 2038, the total cost will have been $24 billion. Four workers died during the…”
“A type of road construction. A definition : to construct or finish (a road) by compacting into a solid mass a layer of small broken stone on a convex well-drained roadbed and using a binder (such as cement or asphalt) for the mass In my reading, it appears that this is the type of road where layers…”
“It’s a lot. But it gets complicated, because energy exists in two dimensions: As a rate at any particular instant in time (‘megawatt’) As a sustained, aggregated amount delivered over a period of time (‘megawatt hour’) So, ‘a megawatt’ is an amount of power being delivered at a singular moment. If…”