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Electrified steel would work. And they can have the slats come to a sharp stake at the top.
To electrify a steel fence, all of the electrified portion would have to be insulated from the ground. If they just ran a string of insulated wires that were electrified, those could be easily cut.
You put insulators between the steel sections, about 14' high and only electrify the upper section(s). And make sure there's a good toe hold at about 8'.
What's the "good toe hold" for? So they can easily stand in these toe holds as they use jumper cables to short out the upper sections to the lower grounded ones?
@libertybele You have it backwards. Steel is put into concrete forms before the pour is made to reinforce the concrete.As for it being new and rusty,don't let that bother you. So is the steel used in bridges and ship-building. The rust can be treated.
Trump's border wall -- how much it will actually cost according to a statisticianFox News 12/11/2018https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trumps-border-wall-how-much-it-will-actually-cost-according-to-a-statisticianConstructionSize of the wall: 1,150 miles long; 40 feet high; 10 feet deep into the ground; 1 foot wideTotal volume of material: 11.2 million cubic yardsMaterials: Approximately $8.7 billion in concrete (97 percent of the materials); approximately $3.6 billion in steel (3 percent of the materials)Labor: Approximately $12.3 billion (given the labor costs on the original 654 miles of barriers we can assume a conservative 1:1 ratio of materials to labor)Land acquisition: About 60 percent of the border is privately owned land. While the federal government has the power to take privately owned property for public purposes, it must provide “just compensation.†Based on previous purchases from the 2006-2009 wall construction, the cost at most would be $300,000 per mile acquired, or approximately $200 million altogether.In total, the actual physical cost of the wall would be about $25 billion. That sounds like a ton of money. But it isn’t just one person paying for it – the entirety of the U.S. taxpayer base would collectively foot the bill.To put that in perspective, we could give 50,000 small businesses $500,000 each to get their businesses up and running. That would be pretty incredible. On the other hand, we spend a lot of money on some absolutely ridiculous things. The taxpayer-funded National Science Foundation gave almost $200,000 to a researcher to study the gambling habits of monkeys. What was the result? Nonsensical animal testing and suffering so we could find out that monkeys like to gamble. Come on.I could easily come up with $25 billion dollars in our federal budget that are wasted each year. No problem.
Is a steel wall going to be cheaper than a concrete one? And whose steel? American, or Chinese?I found this article on the price breakdown for a concrete wall. I haven't found one yet for a steel wall.