Providing Hydropower by Draining the Mediterranean
Published by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network in Technology
Herman Sörgel wanted to create the largest civil engineering project the world has ever seen: a colossal dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, lowering the Mediterranean sea.
There were, of course, a few problems with this.
Atlantropa was a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s and promoted by him until his death in 1952.
Its central feature was a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, which would have provided enormous amounts of hydroelectricity and would have led to the lowering of the surface of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 metres (660 ft), opening up large new lands for settlement, for example in the Adriatic Sea.
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Don't Turkish dam building and environmental experts want to learn from the recent earthquake that occurred in Turkey and Syria and caused many human and financial losses? One of the important and definite causes of the recent earthquakes in Turkey is the construction of the Atatürk, Ilisu and Gap dams. Turkish experts did not even imagine that such an event and natural disasters such as an earthquake would occur in this country. Meanwhile, a year ago before this earthquake, I had warned some earthquake experts in my country and said that the region is prone to earthquakes and soon. We will have an earthquake here, and what I said was exactly right, and an earthquake happened.
Published by alireza makvandi
If you find the topic interesting, have a look at this short documentary about Atlantropa super continent, plans for building massive dams on Gibraltar and Bosphorus, and the social, ecological and economical consequences here.
Published by Dusko Balenovic, Previous Network Manager at The Water Network