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2025-01-15 Science & Technology

A project to flood Egypt's Qattara Depression

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Posted by 3dc 2025-01-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11153 views ] Top

#1 Now do Death Valley!

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-15 06:06|| 2025-01-15 06:06|| Front Page Top

#2 I guess El Sisi been Rais (the head) to long. Megalomania sets in.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2025-01-15 08:04|| 2025-01-15 08:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Wouldn't that have some effect on the local 'climate' and maybe even some impact of 'global climate change'? Maybe all that water into the desert would lower the sea level, offsetting the glaciers melting?

Posted by Bobby 2025-01-15 08:10|| 2025-01-15 08:10|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Likely shift the rotational axes.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-01-15 08:41|| 2025-01-15 08:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, yes, the old Qattara Depression.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-01-15 08:44|| 2025-01-15 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Unless it's got a layer of clay under it, I dunno.
Other than that, it's theirs, sure. Go for it.
(There's got to be a significant amount of ordinace in there.)

Posted by ed in texas 2025-01-15 08:57|| 2025-01-15 08:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Many proposals for this over the past 80 years or so.

A canal to connect it with the Med would be about 60 Miles long. If the canal were wide enough and deep enough the water falling into the depression could generate a lot of electricity, perhaps as much as 200-400 MW with evaporation keeping the water level from rising too much.

But the cost of excavation is enormous and besides excavation, there are many unexploded bombs and mines dating from WWII.

Posted by Lord Garth 2025-01-15 10:15|| 2025-01-15 10:15|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ That's why you have Paleo Chain Gangs dig it

Posted by Frank G 2025-01-15 10:22|| 2025-01-15 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Egypt has such a serious excess of population that they’re building an entire new city to take the pressure off Cairo. They need not look to Gaza for pick’n’shovel bodies to die digging their canal… and the men would be grateful for the opportunity, especially if a death benefit is promised to the family.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-01-15 10:57|| 2025-01-15 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 More on this geologic anomaly.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2025-01-15 17:17|| 2025-01-15 17:17|| Front Page Top

#11 ^2014 article by Ken Jennings, of Jeopardy fame. I read similar article(s) years ago.

Posted by Bobby 2025-01-15 17:45|| 2025-01-15 17:45|| Front Page Top

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