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creating an inland sea in the Sahara Could this be part of an answer to massive sea level rise?
by nitrogen 5y ago
creating an inland sea in the Sahara
Could this be part of an answer to massive sea level rise?
- m4rtink 5y agoWouldn't the water just continously evaporate only to, with high probability, precipitate back to the "global" ocena system or its tributaries? You could make the see less salty though, over a sufficiently long time and get a WHOLE LOT of rock salt.
- addingnumbers 5y agoNapkin math says about 343km^3/year of water to contend with, and the Panama canal work took 35 years to move about 0.2km^3 of earth, about 0.006km^3/year. As a layperson it seems to me you'd need to channel a vast area already below sea level (3500km^2 at ~100m deep?) to put a dent in the rise. Again, napkin math. Reuters claims "75.6 trillion gallons of water added to the ocean each year" and a Panama canal history page says the French dug 30M cubic yards and the Americans dug 238M.