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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 by compacting into a solid mass a layer of small broken stone on a convex well-drained roadbed and using a binder for the mass In my reading, it appears that this is the type of road where layers of gravel are laid, then compacted by…
It’s a lot. But it gets complicated, because energy exists in two dimensions: So, “a megawatt” is an amount of power being delivered at a singular moment. If you deliver that same amount of power for an hour, you have delivered “a megawatt hour.” It’s like driving. Going “60 mph” doesn’t move you…