Dutch blog Sargasso proposes a novel solution to the obstacles now in the way of the 'European Dream': Start a megalomaniac project to dam off the Mediterranean!
You can't think up something crazy enough which has not been thought up before by some crazy German scientist. With apologies about the stereotype, but when it fits...
Originally profiled on Strange Maps (one of the best places to waste your time online).
Building a two and a half kilometre-wide and three hundred metre-high dam across the Gibraltar Strait is a crazy notion indeed. However, big ideas of using the Mediterranean for renewable energy generation are not necessarily insane. I rather like the idea of partnership with Northern Africa for the generation of electricity through concentrated solar power. Also something proposed by German scientists!
Our current energy infrastructure, which runs on sucking huge quantities of black liquid out of the Middle East and bringing it over on three-hundred metre plus long ships, sucking gas out of Siberia and transporting it through thousand-kilometre long pipelines, and levelling mountaintops to extract solid carbon... it is megalomaniac as it is. When you think about it.
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1 comments:
this is a great plan and the totally obvious solution to the problems we have with the Lisbon Treaty.
We should start with admitting Morocco into the Union.
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