Global warming is threatening coffee, wine, beer, and chocolate. Now.

The Deep Borrowed Tunnel has a total cradle to grave carbon GHG impact twice that of the other alternatives, with half the capacity.

Period.

"Many sources say that Bertha is a reference to Bertha Krupp, heiress and owner of the Krupp industrial empire." The original Big Bertha was a massive German howitzer in WWI, called "Dicke Bertha". The name was adopted by the Allies, and later came to be applied to any machinery that's really big.

@2 is correct.

And, surprisingly, it has an Iraq connection, which is amusing in that if we had spent half the US dollars we wasted on Iraq, the US would be 90 percent supplied by wind, solar, and tidal if we'd invested in that instead.

@3, kill yourself. Seriously: just do it.

How about you stop shitting on WiS, Fnarf? Huh? You are wasting your energy so bad.

I think there is a nod to Bertha Knight Landes in there somewhere.