Whether or not this project was feasible, it’s ambition is inspiring. We need more visionaries who aren’t afraid to dream big.

The problem was the NAZI propensity to Nationalism.

I did not check the calculations etc – how much water would actually pass the dams as waterpower. I guess even the “making sahara green”-part would come in this lowering of waterlevel. Nor did I check if the desalination would be done at the dam (a little bit lower saline concentration to the sea).

Taking water off, desalinating and making large hydroponic farms (or irrigation) to sahara along with organic waste transferred to “sandier parts of sahara” to make farmland. Of course these would turn more sahara greener, add rainfall etc but as stated, none can be calculated (yet, at least).

Of course I might have misinterpreted the glance I saw about green sahara below Tunisia and thought the plan was like 6-year-old’s daydream. I didn’t think… so.

On a more urgent note: anyhow please please do not freeze me (don’t use those gulf-currents for energy, we need them here in the north!).

Does no one see that this could not work? The Med. is at sea level, there is no where for the water to flow to once this dam is built. That’s why the Suez Canal has no locks. Sea level is the base level for all water flow on this planet.[/quote]

By blocking all the outflows from the Mediterranean you would create a basin which would continue to fill from all the various rivers and such flowing into it. This would increase the water volume in the Med raising it above sea level. The same principal used to create dams on rivers applies here. The only difference is the scale and multiple dams for the Med vs a single dam for a river.

Remember that the reason for the dam(s) is to restrict the flow of water and creating a reservoir that can be controlled and used at will. Thus the controlled outflow of the Med’s water at the dams would turn the turbines for power generation.

On a side-note: One system under review for sea generated power uses two floats, one positioned over the other, with a piston situated between. The natural wave motion moves the floats causing the piston to pump water up a pipe. This water is stored in a reservoir situated on a hill, where it is released to turn a generator. Basically a natural, no emissions power generation plant.

The other system, which is in use now, uses excess grid power, wind power, or solar to pump water up a hill to a reservoir which is then released turning turbines for power generation.

The Don.

Does no one see that this could not work? The Med. is at sea level, there is no where for the water to flow to once this dam is built. That’s why the Suez Canal has no locks. Sea level is the base level for all water flow on this planet. Or is there a hole in the bottom of the sea? Huge pumping stations could theoretically lower the level, but they would use all of the hydroelectric power and more. (Or was this supposed to be something like a grand scale perpetual motion machine?)