Yep, 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 perspe

Yep, 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).