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Absurd Alhazred posted:Oh, that's all? No worries, then! You wouldn't even need to pump. The basin's dry enough that it loses more water through evaporation than rainfall fills it. The connection to the Atlantic through the Strait of Gibraltar is the only thing keeping it filled, and the entire basin has dried up almost completely several times in relatively recent geological history. The idea was in the original German plan was to dam the Strait of Gibraltar and Straits of Messina, then let evaporation do its work to lower the sea level. Once it dropped far enough, you'd be able to let enough water through turbines to fulfill energy needs without worrying about pumping it out again, since the basin is so large. The big problem with that is that it would take decades for the sub-basins to drain enough to actually do that. The bigger problems are managing the giant dust storms that will result from uncovering giant swaths of seabed, and then rehabilitating land and aquifers that have been saturated in saltwater for centuries. But I guess if you have the resources in place to build a 15km wide, 900 m tall dam, then that shouldn't be too big of a deal! It's not really worth the effort, because the amount of manpower put into it would be better used on other infrastructure projects.
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