President Donald Trump wants an “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful wall” across the 3,200 km border with Mexico. Over 400 contractors were expected to submit their schemes this week to the US Customs and Border Protection agency. Some of the proposals were surreal and quite novel.
Clayton Industries of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has proposed digging a 100ft trench along the border and filling it with nuclear waste. Company owner Christian Clayton described his wall as a “conduit”, explaining the waste would also be used to generate electricity, the Guardian reported. Two firms have proposed for a wall covered with solar panels. Both suggest selling the electricity that the solar panels generate to offset the cost of the wall.
Meanwhile, Otra Nation, a group of engineers, architects and designers, has proposed for the whole border area to be run jointly by both nations. Instead of erecting any kind of barrier, its plan calls for an elevated high-speed hyperloop that would stretch the length of the current border, the CNN reported.
DarkPulse Technologies is proposing a big ballistics-grade concrete wall embedded with special sensors to notify border agents of the exact location of any tampering in real time. Their wall would be coated to prevent the use of grappling hooks.
