To travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, ships must bridge a 26-metre height difference. The ships go through 3 locks: the Miraflores, Pedro Miguel and Gatun locks. 82km long Panama Canal transit can be completed in approximately 8-10 hours. I propose the swarm construction robots to enlarge the canal and decrease the lock stage count to one. 26 meter water level difference can be high for a single lock but I suppose engineers would find a clever way of solving it. The locks can be build in the lake section of the canal to allow more than two locks to be build to speed up the canal transit. Wind farms would be build to power the all electric construction robots. After the canal construction finishes they would power the cities nearby.
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