What could go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatta ra_

>>7707806
>The inflowing water would then evaporate quickly because of the desert climate. This way a continuous flow of water could be created if inflow and evaporation were balanced out. With this continuously flowing water hydroelectricity could be generated.
How fast does water evaporate there? I can't see how this would generate more electricity than a huge solar panel

>>7707806
>Qattara_Depression_Project
I was hoping that this would be an experiment in which a city's population were drugged/otherwise manipulated into depression.

That should be done.

>>7707806
>The resulting lagoon, according to the CIA, would have four benefits:
>It would be "spectacular and peaceful."
>It would "materially alter the climate in adjacent areas."
>It would "provide work during construction and living areas after completion for the Palestinian Arabs."
>It would get Egyptian president Gamel Abdel Nasser's "mind on other matters" because "he need[ed] some way to get off the Soviet Hook."

Oh boy.

>>7707820
This is what I thought just glancing. Sounded scary as all hell, like Kowloon walled city in shadowrun hong kong. Maybe spray aerosolized serotonergics through the air and block out all natural light and slowly flood the place

I don't see the problem, unless the science is wrong.

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>>7707820
Oh Jeez

I'd rather flood the Danakil Depression. It would only take an 18 mile canal to reach the edge of the ~400 feet deep depression, as opposed to the 50 mile canal/tunnels required to reach the Qattara basin.

>>7707817
>I can't see how this would generate more electricity than a huge solar panel

For one thing, a hydroelectic dam is arguably easier to protect from terrorist attacks then a massive and fragile solar panel array.

Pretty sure hydroelectricity is also way more efficient.

>>7708520
Don't worry anon, we can get around the expanse of the canal digging very easily.

>Calculations showed that digging a canal or tunnel would be too expensive. Bassler decided to use nuclear explosions to excavate the canal. Exactly 213 boreholes would each have a nuclear explosive charge of 1.5 megatons. Every one of these bombs would have an explosive yield one hundred times that of the atomic bomb of Hiroshima. This fit within the Atoms for Peace program proposed by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1953.

Totally viable and safe solution.

>>7709359
There was literally nothing wrong with Project Plowshare

We could have created instant harbors, leveled mountains, made new larger canals in far less time money and effort this all takes now because we are so afraid of a little nuke being used for worthwhile purposes.