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I cannot see how the dams would be able to generate electricity. The water has to flow somewhere and obviously there is no sea to dump it into which is under th
by dfox 9y ago
I cannot see how the dams would be able to generate electricity. The water has to flow somewhere and obviously there is no sea to dump it into which is under the sea level.
- umlaut 9y agoThe dam would still allow some water into the Mediterranean, which is why it's "only" a drop of 100m-200m in mean sea level in the Mediterranean.
- dfox 9y agoWell, still the remaining water in new lower mediterranean has to go somewhere for this to be sustainable and I don't believe that just evaporation would be enough for any significant power generation capacity.
- learn_more 9y agoIf the only outflow was was from evaporation, the salinity would keep increasing. Eventually the salt would have to be removed somehow. Perhaps some of the energy harvested at the Straits of Gibraltar could be used to exchange some of the water to keep the salinity down.