On: Kim Stanley Robinson’s “New York 2140”

[johan_larson]

Hello, Reinhardt Gehrke here from Deutche Bank Municipal Bonds. We got the the RFP you sent around. We are eager to be of service of course, but is this a misprint? You want to borrow trillions of dollars for infrastructure projects?

[thriftwy → johan_larson]

I don't think it would be prohibitively expensive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg_Dam to compare to - 15mi of dams built for a much less wealthy city.

[binarymax → thriftwy]

At New York prices it would be... http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/23/where-the-secon...