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To: Moominoid who wrote (17840)	4/5/2002 6:15:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 74559

Thanks for the links David. Cyberspace is so great! Here's my civil engineering suggestion: dam the Strait of Gibraltar and as the Mediterranean evaporates and the level lowers, generate power as it refills from the Atlantic pipeline. That would make the Three Gorges power generation project look trivial. The Nile could be fed through a pipeline and generate power too. Also, the Bosphorus! The Red Sea could supply power at the eastern end too. The Suez Canal would need a few more locks added as the level dropped. There would need to be some impressive locks for ships to get up and down to the Atlantic. They'd be a great tourist attraction. With big pipes, large ships could be raised and lowered hundreds of meters in a matter of minutes. There would be no shortage of water, so there would be no delay [as there is with canals] waiting for more water to arrive to do the job. That would create huge amounts of new beach-front property around the Mediterranean, which would enable the population enjoying the sunshine to dramatically increase, which would add huge value to the region [though people who used to be on the water edge would get property value drops]. Quite a power station: <...Eventually, a small breach in the Gibraltar dam sent the process into reverse. Ocean water cut a tiny channel to the Mediterranean. As the channel enlarged, the water flowed faster and faster, until the torrent ripped through the emerging Strait of Gibraltar at more than 100 knots. "The Gibraltar Falls were one hundred times bigger than Victoria Falls and a thousand times grander than Niagara," Hsü wrote in his book The Mediterranean was a Desert (Princeton University Press, 1983). > Mqurice

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