Boring Tunnels to make Sahara Green again | by Pavel Konecny | Age of Awareness | Medium

Qattara Depression is in Egypt. Its deepest point is about 130m below the sea level. The idea was using that as an advantage firstly brought in 1912. The multiple different project proposals were considered: Using the elevation distance as a hydro plant or divert Nil river to establish freshwater Qattara Lake. That would make this part of the Sahara Desert habitable. However, the cost of building a canal or tunnels was extreme. The proposed solution to use 213 nuclear bombs (every 1.5 millions of TNT) for the land extravasation was quickly discarded. However, we could use the advance in the water deseliation and reduce the cost of tunneling. Would be the project commercially viable nowadays? Boring the tunnels With the increasing population and water scarcity in Egypt, there is no option to divert freshwater from Nil river as one of the options. So we will need to use the Mediterranean seawater. The shortest distance would require digging a tunnel. The tunneling cost seems quite high.

Qattara Depression is in Egypt. Its deepest point is about 130m below the sea level. The idea was using that as an advantage firstly brought in 1912. The multiple different project proposals were considered: Using the elevation distance as a hydro plant or divert Nil river to establish freshwater Qattara Lake. That would make this part of the Sahara Desert habitable. However, the cost of building a canal or tunnels was extreme. The proposed solution to use 213 nuclear bombs (every 1.5 millions of TNT) for the land extravasation was quickly discarded. However, we could use the advance in the wa