Egypt’s $9BN Water Transfer Project
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2024
- Today we explore the Qattara Depression in Egypt. This mega project is a pretty insane piece of planned engineering and one of the world's largest water transfer project. This gig project is so grand, we were blown away by the construction plans, will this project be a success?
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That nuclear bomb idea was a pretty stupid one 🤣 Will this project succeed?
Hydroelectric dams don’t generate power through evaporation wtf is this guy talking about.
The Depression did this
He means the evaporation would be so large that there will be always an influx of water to come from the Mediterranean and power the turbines.
How is it possible that so many commenters completely missed a huge part of the video about it including desalination plants, making it a fresh water lake that will not ruin underground aquifers. SMH.
Well said!
Its not an official plan cause that will destroy all resevoir water under the dessert
Ya, I'm Egyptian and that is a big worry.
How long until that water will be pumped out and used? Also, wouldn't sand act as a filter, filtering out the sea water by the time it reaches the reservoirs, replenishing them?
@@MuzzaHukka too much money plus if we have the extra electricity there are better stuff to use it for
And the resevoir water extends to many western african countries not our reservoir alone
They are going to poison the water table and the worlds second largest aquafer. Great job...
While the Russians did use a nuclear bomb, as a test, to make a lake, it turned out to be a radiation hazard, so dropping that part of the idea is good. Reverse osmosis for that much water is problematic. I don't think there's enough tubing manufactures in the world to remotely cover the necessary tubing on a yearly basis. And the amount of plastic waste, unless it can be recycled, is horrific. An evaporative/boil-off condenser (Electric heaters fro the power turbines/solar/wind.) process may be better suited to such a large scale.
Oh, and thank you for loosing the wobbly camera. But what's up with the small white grid in the video?
So are they relying on evaporation to create enough inflow for hydroelectric or floating surface covers to preserve the desalinized lake?
Ya, I said the same thing. The video is all over the place.
The best way to create an artificial Dead Sea.
That will ruin whatever groundwater still available in the scattered oasis in the western dessert of Egypt.
correct, it would be an environmental catastrophe for even the Nile Delta and massive erosion on the north cost of Egypt
What they can do is to run a desalination plant near the sea and then dropping the desalinated water by 200 meters towards the depression. This will generate the hydroelectricity to power the desalination plant. The only problem is that they will then need to use the water or evaporate it otherwise once the lake fills up, water won't flow. They can create cities and farm near the lake to consume the water and also to recharge ground water.
This is probably impossible.
Proud of Egypt❤🇪🇬
Crying about ethiopians dam,and proud of Egypt hé? 🤔🤔 Egypt better zip it about ethiopians dam?
@@zebibacker0423shut up fool. Stop talking nonsense all throughout the comment body and go do something beneficial.
@@zebibacker0423It's clear that you're the one crying
@@Greenone44-v8t oooooohhhhh poor Egypt don't have water,need water from Ethiopie,👉🏿🤭😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🫡,Egypt need water,than Egypt need to pay for that water,so simpel is that😭😭😭😭😭😭.
Why not divert the Nile water to run off into the depression instead of into the sea?
That way you dont get a lake full of salt water but full of regular water
The Nile is not infinite
@@mostafasamy8751 Thats the point...
the Nile hardly meets 30% of fresh water needed in Egypt
The Nile is also a lot further away from the depression then the Mediterranean Sea.
@@ananazi23 That is 100% incorrect statistic that you just made up.
Pipe dream! Best of luck!
Egypt really needs this kind of project to become a big power in the future. 🇹🇷❤️🇪🇬
The Same for Ethiopië, Egypte is crying about ethiopians dam,Egypte can build whaterver they want, but ethiopie not, hhhmmmm funny arabs.
@@zebibacker0423 we love u all 🇹🇷❤️💋
@@zebibacker0423lol African
modern engineering,,. anything is possible 🚀💯🙏🏾
thanks, it's possible transfer huge volume of water or bulky load in plateau by construct new method railway in two Parallel railway
that I mentioned in my profile.
Filling the depression with desalinated water is stupid because it requires constant inputs of energy. Filling the depression with salt water and using the energy to desalinate water for use elsewhere does make sense. Extracting sea salt for the hyper saline lake would be a position. Adding moisture to the air would be a positive somewhere down wind which in this case is south. Another positive would would be arresting sea level rise for a period of time while the lake fills.
PS; it will also super salinate their dwindling underground aquifers.
Completely contradictory scenario, how would you cover the lake and still use the sea breeze effect?
The best concept for this project is to completely fill the depression with a 20,000km2 lake and an open channel, not tunnels, so it can be used for tourism and marine industry.
How much salt does the evaporated water have? Why not use large scale ultrasonic nebulizers and collect the mist from surface?
No offense but whoever made this video didn't do his homework, all the estimates you made for the project is completely incorrect a project like this would cost at least 100+ billion usd to make and thats a conservative estimate, not to mention if we could desalinate that much water why would we put it in an open lake in the middle of one of the hottest deserts to evaporate that is literally like burning your money and even if you found a solution to that the qattara depression is filled with salt marshes that cover an area of about 300 square kilometers so you basically spending billions every year to desalinate water only for it to evaporate and the remaining water will be infused with the salt marshes that will result in that water being unusable.
I agree completely , and add another point ,
The bed of the depression is already filled with huge amounts of salts ,
If a desalinated water will fill the depression it shall dissolve the existing salts and will be saline water again ,, 😅
Accordingly the proposed desalination shall have no meaning .other than loss of money and effort.
Sorry to say that the study is incomplete and need to be revised to include the existing geological conditions of the depression .
@@mam18181 exactly!!!!
Evaporation causes rain and some greeneries and you can get some fish and the land turns green
@@luckyluck-s5k yap, same i also think...
The first half of the video (filling it with sea water) is the real plan
But the other one is totally impossible.
- The area of the depression can take up to 100 billion m³ of water
- the largest desalination plant gives ⅓ billion m³ of water yearly and it costs 1.5 billion $
- That means you need 4.5b $ to have a billion m³ of water
That means if you need to spend 450b $ to fill the depression yearly .
not to mention the high evaporation rate there
Great idea 👍👍👍
I'd be curious how much this will lower the world's oceans.
Nice choose Egypt!!!
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good idea
Whoever builds this canal will be remembered as God millennia from now. Maybe some powerful people fear that.
Should have been done years ago, this will be a great example for other countries to follow suit.
Nonsense!! It's a very unique geographic situation and not likely found anywhere else. There's also lots of questions to warrant skepticism!
There are machines that can take the natural moisture in the air and make it clean drinking water. Yes even desert air has moisture in it.
The screen you add that makes it look like you are looking through a screen door makes your videos unwatchable
What wasn't shown was how exactly one intends to capture the evaporating water to create your continuous loop. Even if you could I'd be quite skeptical it would be enough. Otherwise you have to pump the water back up w electric pumps that aren't in the plans.
Otherwise, you're counting on using up enough of the desalinated water to justify the continuous flow from the Mediterranean. What this does to the Mediterranean is not discussed.
I think they alluded to it when they were talking about generating 40 GW of power through pipes. Water evaporates from the lake lowering the lake level & causing water to inflow from the Mediterranean through turbines. That's my guess anyway
This has potential I don’t know why Elon Musk and the boring company aren’t all over this
@@marccracchiolo4935 Maybe he would see flaws as do I. I'd be curious to hear his thoughts tho.
The true problem of Egypt is not a lack of water, but the rapid population growth. It is just insane to breed that intense and add over a million additional Egyptians each year.
Egyptians must learn to become realists instead of going on the "inshallah, bukra, maalish" path to doom.
$9 billion?!?! That might get 50 miles of high speed rail track in california (by the year 2045)!
its not a 9 billion dollars, a project of this magnitude would cost 100+ billion the person who made this video doesn't know what he/she is talking about, for example the desalination plant's that they are talking about alone would cost upwards of 40+ billion usd to make not to mention he said the cost for the tunnels if 6 million and that also is not true the cost of a 1km tunnel alone at the cheap end would cost more than 100+ million usd multiply that by 50 km your talking another 5 billion usd just for the tunnel's, in 2020 it was reported that saudi arabia would invest around $80 billion into desalination over the next decade and that its desalination capacity is expected to reach 8.5 million cubic meters per day by 2025 and they are already been investing tens of billions over the past 20 years, that should give you an understanding of how much this project would cost in comparison. who ever made this video is living in lala land.
good egypt
I did a similar video on my channel on the Qattara depression it's epic, Who else agrees?
I looked at both, very similar
Great idea. The only missing ingredient is financing. It will never happen.😊
Don't count on it. Where there is potential, there is always funding.
Build the pyramids then you can build anything later.
😂😂
how will fish react to being covered
No fish will be able to survive in a new artificial expensive dead sea.
Bold!
Far be it from me to criticize a civilization famous as one of the great builders of the world, but this idea is a pipe dream. Using nukes in the excavation process would render all of that silt that would feed the lake radioactive, making the lake radioactive. It would have been an ecological disaster. The idea of using evaporation to generate power is also not feasible. In fact, the lake itself is not feasible without some source feeding new water to it to offset what evaporates in the desert. They're talking about a "greening" and rewilding project too, which wouldn't see the regional climate change for 20 or more years. For a country already involved in several megaprojects, drowning in debt, and struggling to feed its growing population, this thing's a non-starter.
Egypt has an agreement under the 1959 treaty to receive 55 billion cubic metres (Tons) of water from the upper nile catchment. This is the obvious choice of the supply for the project. The potential for residual deposits is reduced by a massive factor, but we all know that Egypt is too backward to do this job properly.
Why do all the videos on this channel have a white grid over all the pictures/video clips? It's very annoying.
Desalinate sea water to fill a lake covered with plastic balls?
Why?
Desertification isn't a thing today. The world's deserts are getting smaller as the atmosphere gains more plant food (carbon dioxide).
20 years? just ask for help from China they'll do it in 10 at most😂
Egyptian officials would never do anything to benefit the country
So there is a proposal for a canal from the gulf of Aqaba to the Mediterranean sea. It goes through Israel. But the environmentalist are not have it. But Egypt's project, no problemo!
😎🤔😎🤔😎🤔😎🤔😎🤔😎🤔😎 Felicidades.
😮 whamy afghan can create artificial river and why egypt cannot do such thing ?
Hmm
Lol, dream on
Bitter much! Good on them, I hope they succeed
Valuable salt ,huh?
this is complete nonsense what are you making your estimates according to
Bad idea
Great idea ? Or environmental catastrophe ?
I think it would mess with the dust blown from the Sahara into the Pacific Ocean… which helps the CO2-eating algae… so no I don’t think this is a good idea from a climate change perspective.
Seems a bit fanciful.
GREAT VIDEO! but IQ is small, it doesn't make any ounce of sense to desalinate such huge amounts of water, do u even have an idea of how much power is needed to desalinate
waste of money. the roi is going to be something like 30-40 years.
TALK
That tunnel goes straight to gaza. It will never hold water, but they still get tools like you to pretend like its a civil infrastructure project😂 and the international community to fund it😂
Egypt is in deep economical trouble already. They don't need to gamble on a project with so many unknowns.
A large lake was created behind the Aswan Dam. It caused all kinds of problems. Egypt is bad at dealing with rainfall. The monuments would not be served by it either. To create an even bigger lake would be irresponsible.
This project will not happen...period!
Ayoo first
They can build whaterver they want in their land, but ethiopie can't build a dam in their land, hhhhhmmmm, this arabs are funny.
I don't like it
I reckon that the Mediterranean is finite so this project wouldn't be fair with it
😮 whamy afghan can create artificial river and why egypt cannot do such thing ?