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You’re effectively turning the entire meditatarian (sp) into a giant solar panel. The sun evaporating all that water makes way for new water to flow through th

You’re effectively turning the entire meditatarian (sp) into a giant solar panel. The sun evaporating all that water makes way for new water to flow through the dams turbines.

phreeza 7y ago
That is a neat way of looking at it. I wonder what the efficiency of this would be compared to photovoltaics.
- api 7y ago
  Very poor. The collector surface is just free.
mkl 7y ago
"Mediterranean": "Medi" = middle, "terra" = land/earth. It's the sea in the middle of the land.
- mrfusion 7y ago
  Thanks. Good pnumnomic (sp)!
  - Sharlin 7y ago
    Not sure if joking, but "mnemonic", from Greek mnēmōn "mindful". Then there's "pneumonic" which is something else entirely.
chr1 7y ago
A smaller version of the same idea was Qattara Depression Project which has more chances of being built https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project