The Mirage of Megaprojects: Why the West Keeps Getting Infrastructure Wrong

Britain once built world-class infrastructure with speed and purpose—now it plans ideas like a £24 billion extension cords to Morocco that are unlikely to ever work. This video dives into the rise and fall of the Xlinks Morocco–UK Power Project, exploring how overcomplication, bespoke design, and...

21 min - Engineering & Megastructures - Patrick Boyle

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