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> build a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, and lower the water level of the Mediterranean. You mean like this? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-bon
by cesarb 9y ago
> build a dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, and lower the water level of the Mediterranean.
You mean like this? https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-bonkers-reallife-plan-to-drain-the-mediterranean-and-merge-africa-and-europe https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-bonkers-reallife-p...
- magduf 9y agoYep, I was wondering if anyone would get the reference. I don't know why they call it "bonkers", though: it seems perfectly feasible from an engineering perspective, although it's obviously a serious megaproject, and would be extremely costly. But the cost could very well be worth it, for both electricity generation and land creation. The main problem I see is political: who would own and control it, and who would get to take ownership of the new land, and also a lot of people would probably fight it because it'd be changing the geography so significantly (lots of wealthy people with waterfront property wouldn't after the sea level fell).