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nick hoffman — (archived)

There are things called continents. Their distinguishing characteristic is that they are above sea level. You know, like - dry land...

If you dig a canal into the mountains, from the sea, will the water flow uphill?

In general, this idea fails. You COULD pump salt water uphill into the centre of the Sahara desert, but it would take huge amounts of energy and would serve mostly to add salt to the desert and allow limited downwind rainfall.

There is the relatively small area of Eastern Libya/ Western Egypt called the Quattara depression. That is below sea level. A canal to there would work. Hydropower. Saline irrigation. Downwind rainfall. Huge salt deposits in a local man-made brine lake...

It's not a crazy idea. but it will change climate and weather not just regionally but perhaps globally.

Let's try these things when we've finished with the CO2 experiment?

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