The worst dam idea: evaporating the Mediterranean to power Europe
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The worst dam idea: evaporating the Mediterranean to power Europe
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#2The final part of a trilogy of stories I ran in my newsletter - and since the first two were well-received on here a few months back, and got me some generous & good advice on tightening them up, I thought I'd push my luck a final time. Plus, this topic's both wtf-barmy and perhaps timely, considering Europe's energy supply issues right now.
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#3Smaller scale project - Czech dam (the red lines are
dams):
https://www.abclinuxu.cz/images/screenshots/7/3/242837-ceska...
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#4With rising sea levels perhaps it might be an option to keep the levels in the mediterranen? Seems at least more feasible than the Norther European Enclosure Dam*
*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_European_Enclosure_Da...
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#5There are strong currents at work in the strait of Gibraltar. Would be interesting to harness their energy in some way.
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#6There are strong currents at work in the strait of Gibraltar. Would be interesting to harness their energy in some way.
Agreed. There's a tidal turbine off Orkney, the most powerful in the world, that just went live: https://www.orkney.com/news/orbital-grid It's powering 2,000 homes and an electrolyzer creating green hydrogen. A few of those - or a few arrays of them- in the Strait might do wonders.
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#7There are strong currents at work in the strait of Gibraltar. Would be interesting to harness their energy in some way.
Like an underwater turbine.
Japan is apparently going to give it a shot: https://www.inputmag.com/tech/japan-kairyu-ocean-turbine-dee...
Looks like Scotland’s is a roaring success: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetl...
No need to evaporate the sea.
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#8The Qattara depression portion of the project still seems worth doing. While I’d prefer the freshwater flavored version, it’s not hard to imagine it turning into another Salton Sea as droughts occur.
Re: The worst dam idea: evaporating the Mediterranean to power Europe
#9With rising sea levels perhaps it might be an option to keep the levels in the mediterranen? Seems at least more feasible than the Norther European Enclosure Dam* *) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_European_Enclosure_Da...
Since parts of Northern Europe still experiences Post-glacial rebound and will rise faster than the expected rise of the ocean level I find this project unnecessary. (I am still a sucker for megaprojects though)
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#10Not mentioned in this article: In Philip K. Dick's alternative history The Man in the High Castle, in which the Nazis and Imperial Japan won World War II, the Nazis execute this plan and drain the Mediterranean. As the author mentions, there wasn't much care for what happened to the people living in Africa. In Dick's book, the Nazis visited some unspeakable holocaust on them.