Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious plan to build 500m tall, mirrored, 170km long parallel skyscrapers, forming a 1.5M population desert city has been curtailed to 2.4km long.
The news was broken by the financial news publication Bloomberg, which said that Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for Neom, of which The Line is the most significant sub-project.
The Saudi government had hoped to have 1.5M residents living in The Line by 2030, but this has been scaled back to fewer than 300,000, according to the report. It is unclear how it intends to house a higher concentration of people considering the proposed length (and therefore area) has been massively slashed.
My guy, that’s not substantial, that’s exponential.
And to the naynays sure, it’s not a completed project, nor is it easy to replicate the process found in the center of stars - without the rest of the star there to help. Who gives af if it takes 70yrs, humanity will become a before and after story once we crack fusion.
I’ll start getting sus when Elon Musk says he founded it