Trump Asks For “Border Wall” Designs. Engineers Create Hilarious (And Useful) Alternative
Otra Nation IN BRIEF A group of engineers and urban planners from the U.S. and Mexico came up with an innovative alternative design for the proposed wall along the border — one that runs on solar and keeps both countries in the loop. ENGINEERS PROPOSE LOOP-TASTIC SOLUTION The Trump administration has called for border wall proposals , and a group of engineers called MADE Collective just responded in truly epic style. The group submitted a proposal for a “wall” that’s really a $15 billion hyperloop — that’s $6 billion less than the current estimate for a simple barrier from the Department of Homeland Security. MADE Collective estimates that such a loop would create $1 trillion in jobs. Credit: MADE Collective MADE Collective , a group of Mexican and American urban planners and engineers, calls their project Otra Nation . This hyperloop transportation network would transform the border from unusable, dead space into a shared nation, with an independ...