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 #1456291  by David Benton
 
http://www.ecns.cn/2018/01-08/287452.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; One of the Innovation Team winners in this year's China National Science and Technology Awards is a team that has been researching construction on permafrost for almost half a century and made the completion of Qinghai-Tibet Railway possible in 2006.
 #1456916  by george matthews
 
David Benton wrote:They may have to increase the refrigeration of the permafrost. Hopefully they use solar power to do it.
If it melts seriously, the whole length of the track may twist and sink. The same would be the case in some of the new Russian lines into the Arctic regions. And also in Alaska. I don't think these are fantasies.