Dutch propose damming off the whole North Sea
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Dutch propose damming off the whole North Sea to protect Holland 25 million Europeans.
I think they may be on a bit of a sticky wicket when it comes to various folk on at least one end of both dams.
I think they may be on a bit of a sticky wicket when it comes to various folk on at least one end of both dams.
Surely if the seas rise and don't have the North Sea & Baltic for water to flow into to keep the world average down, then the water will rise higher than it would without the dams on the other side of the dam and everywhere else around the world. Plus if they think it's melting glacier ice that will do it then they are just enclosing the icy areas of Norway, Sweden and Finland into one limited area causing the Baltic and North Sea to rise more than it would do without the dams in place.
"estimated at between €250bn and £500bn" add a nought or two onto the end of that.
This sounds as mad as the German's plan to dam the Mediterranean in the 1920s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
"estimated at between €250bn and £500bn" add a nought or two onto the end of that.
This sounds as mad as the German's plan to dam the Mediterranean in the 1920s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantropa
Oakey said:
Boris Bridge 2: The Bridgening not looking so mental now
I always enjoyed how the press decided to call the proposed Thames estuary airport, "Boris Island" -- with its obvious sort of 007 connotation. 
If you google "Boris Island" today, the first result is typically the Wikipedia entry for the official project.
kING SEA!Most here are too young to remember the East cost floods and the many lives lost.
Who knows if it’s feasible.
Think of the power it could generate with the tidal flow. Never runs out either. Easy to store short term power when the tide changes direction, Twelfth’s rule.
What’s not to like?
Who knows if it’s feasible.
Think of the power it could generate with the tidal flow. Never runs out either. Easy to store short term power when the tide changes direction, Twelfth’s rule.
What’s not to like?
If my memory serves me correctly the fact that a lot of The Netherlands is already below sea level is because they actually dug out the land and burned it - it was peat. It's a curious country whereby they are continuously pumping it out to prevent it flooding, that's why there were so many windmills there, they were connected to Archimedes screw type pumps.
227bhp said:
If my memory serves me correctly the fact that a lot of The Netherlands is already below sea level is because they actually dug out the land and burned it - it was peat. It's a curious country whereby they are continuously pumping it out to prevent it flooding, that's why there were so many windmills there, they were connected to Archimedes screw type pumps.
No different from the Fens which are also continuously pumped out. Oh, come on.
When we first heard about the Boris Belfast Bridge, those of us who expressed the opinion that he was off his trolley were told we were defeatist snowflakes, and that every great British engineer from Trevithick to Cockerell was spinning (synchronised at a beautifully calculated non-harmonic frequency) in their graves at the thought we had become such a nation of melts to pooh-pooh the idea.
Well, I for one have learned my lesson.....and will be damned if we let some Dutch hippies outshine the Boris Bridge with some scuzzy plebian earthworks.
Hence, I will be petitioning him directly that as soon as the Bridge is completed we should be immediately starting work on the Penzance - Port Stanley Motorway, with service stations at both Gibraltar and Ascension Island.
Take that, Cloggy!
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