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Similar project: Czech reservoir - https://prehrada.hrach.eu/en.html https://prehrada.hrach.eu/en.html

by dvh 4y ago

tchvil 4y ago
This would solve all Europe's energy problems. We "just" have to convince and compensate less than 1% of the European population. Each time I see this story pops up, I think how it could be great, and impossible at the same time.
- lproven 4y ago
  I live in the middle of it, and I still think it has merit. I am conflicted.
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perihelions 4y ago
This website is clearly intended as a joke.
- lproven 4y ago
  http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html
  - perihelions 4y ago
    The website measures power units in multiples of "Chernobyl" and lists a positive of the proposed project as "no more drought" (in the submerged area, underwater). Also, it's literally proposing to annihilate Prague. How obvious can irony get?
    - lproven 4y ago
      No, I entirely agree, it is. I think you're missing the point that I am trying to make... and I think the website author, or perhaps whoever dreamed up the idea if it wasn't the same person. We are not just hurtling but accelerating into rapid climate change, on a scale of 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than the PETM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm... We are heading towards 2º C in 15 years or so: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/global-warming-critical-threshold-climate-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/global-warming-crit... And twice that by end century: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/the-worst-case-climate-change-scenario-could-look-like-this-we-need-to-avert-it/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/the-worst-case-climat... A largely ice-free planet in 2 generations, with almost all terrestrial glaciers gone: https://www.dailysabah.com/life/environment/worst-case-scenario-over-80-of-worlds-glaciers-to-vanish-by-2100 https://www.dailysabah.com/life/environment/worst-case-scena... That means no snowpack in the mountains anywhere except Antarctica. No melting ice keeping rivers flowing. That means several billions more people without reliable water, and those are people from rich powerful nations, not poor folk in the developing world and the tropics. That leaves stark choices, such as "abandon continental Europe and move half a billion people from 10,000 cities to the Arctic", versus "abandon half of one small country and make it the reservoir to keep rivers wet in Western and Central Europe." Desperate times, desperate measures. Things that in normal times are inconceivable ludicrous ideas, getting done because they are the only ideas anyone has. Ideas that seem funny: ha-ha -- suddenly being evaluated: only serious. That is what I, and the author of this idea, are talking about.

Similar project: Czech reservoir - https://prehrada.hrach.eu/en.html https://prehrada.hrach.eu/en.html

by dvh 4y ago

Similar project: Czech reservoir - https://prehrada.hrach.eu/en.html https://prehrada.hrach.eu/en.html

This would solve all Europe's energy problems. We "just" have to convince and compensate less than 1% of the European population. Each time I see this story pops up, I think how it could be great, and impossible at the same time.

lproven 4y ago
I live in the middle of it, and I still think it has merit. I am conflicted.
- deleted 4y ago
  [deleted]

perihelions 4y ago

This website is clearly intended as a joke.

lproven 4y ago
http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html
- perihelions 4y ago
  The website measures power units in multiples of "Chernobyl" and lists a positive of the proposed project as "no more drought" (in the submerged area, underwater). Also, it's literally proposing to annihilate Prague. How obvious can irony get?
  - lproven 4y ago
    No, I entirely agree, it is. I think you're missing the point that I am trying to make... and I think the website author, or perhaps whoever dreamed up the idea if it wasn't the same person. We are not just hurtling but accelerating into rapid climate change, on a scale of 2-3 orders of magnitude faster than the PETM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Thermal_Maximum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene%E2%80%93Eocene_Therm... We are heading towards 2º C in 15 years or so: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/global-warming-critical-threshold-climate-intl/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/30/world/global-warming-crit... And twice that by end century: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/the-worst-case-climate-change-scenario-could-look-like-this-we-need-to-avert-it/ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/the-worst-case-climat... A largely ice-free planet in 2 generations, with almost all terrestrial glaciers gone: https://www.dailysabah.com/life/environment/worst-case-scenario-over-80-of-worlds-glaciers-to-vanish-by-2100 https://www.dailysabah.com/life/environment/worst-case-scena... That means no snowpack in the mountains anywhere except Antarctica. No melting ice keeping rivers flowing. That means several billions more people without reliable water, and those are people from rich powerful nations, not poor folk in the developing world and the tropics. That leaves stark choices, such as "abandon continental Europe and move half a billion people from 10,000 cities to the Arctic", versus "abandon half of one small country and make it the reservoir to keep rivers wet in Western and Central Europe." Desperate times, desperate measures. Things that in normal times are inconceivable ludicrous ideas, getting done because they are the only ideas anyone has. Ideas that seem funny: ha-ha -- suddenly being evaluated: only serious. That is what I, and the author of this idea, are talking about.