#greensahara Project Green Sahara
Funding comes through a combination of EU funds, Member States' investments
and capital raised by European investment banks. The scheme was presented by
Brussels as an important step for the EU in building influence around the
world. The European Union said the Global Gateway Africa-Europe investment
package will allow EU members to support projects in priority areas.
The investments will focus on goals based on the green transition, including
generating renewable energy and protecting biodiversity by stabilizing 3
million square kilometers (1.16 million square miles) of land. There will be
also support for sustainable agro- food systems. Efforts will also focus on
sustainable growth and job creation.
The economic and climate benefits of investments for the Green Sahara Project,
through: construction of canals, dams, hydroelectric power stations,
photovoltaic parks, irrigation systems, farms, forests and slopes embankments,
will be more than 1000 times higher than the allocated amounts.
It will be the most profitable investment in human history after the
Panama Canal and the Suez Canal. The damages caused by hurricanes, extreme
temperatures, climate change, are both human and material. Only in the USA,
the cost of material damage caused by weather and climatic disasters, from
1980 to 2021, is 2.155 trillion USD ($2,155,000,000,000) or 2155 billion
dollars. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/
Hurricanes form due to warm air currents from the Sahara causing the surface
of the Atlantic Ocean to heat up: https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/tc . A
green Sahara would drop the daytime temperature in the desert by 15 Celsius
degrees (from 45-50 to 35 Celsius degrees) in the hot season, and at night,
when temperatures are low, it would increase it by 15 degrees. The forest and
green vegetation in the Sahara will act as an adiabatic envelope that will
dampen sudden temperature changes. This could decrease the incidence of
hurricanes and thus a decrease in property damage caused by hurricane
disasters. With an estimated investment of only 1% of the amount allocated to
natural disasters recovery assessed from 1980 to 2021, projects that would
lead to the reduction of natural disasters could be realized with a payback of
the investment in the next 10 years. The advantages could be: the slowing down
of climate change, the decrease in excessive heat phenomena, prosperity for
the countries of southern Europe, but also a decrease in food prices. Southern
Europe is facing a persistent drought, some lakes and rivers have dried up (in
Southern Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Romania),
summer forest fires are more frequent. Lake Chad has reduced its surface by
90%. The flow of the Nile River is decreasing, due to the construction of new
hydrotechnical dams along the river and increased use of irrigation. The Azov
Sea has dried up, being a salt desert that destroys crops. In Iraq the water
in the Euphrates River is getting less and less. The Caspian Sea registers low
levels and an increase in salinity, and the Dead Sea is drying up at an
accelerated rate, the main causes being the construction of hydrotechnical
dams and massive irrigation for intensive crops.
A global solution for carbon capture and climate stabilization that can be
fast and within the reach of all nations is afforestation, and within the
presented project, the afforestation of the Sahara Desert or the creation of a
sustainable permaculture system here, but not an intensive agriculture that is
harmful to the climate.
This can be done by (presented in reverse order):
4. Construction of a dyke with locks between the Mediterranean Sea and
the Rosetta Arm of the Nile River at 4930 meters from the mouth of the
Mediterranean Sea,
Current projects require energy consumption for water desalination or draw on
groundwater reserves, a danger to the drying of desert oases. There are
totally wrong projects that could turn Lake Qattara into a large salt flat if
the option of a canal between the Mediterranean Sea and the Qattara Depression
is accepted, because the rate of evaporation is high in the area and the lake
would become a concentrated area of salt water.
Another danger of the variant of the Mediterranean Sea - Qattara Depression
project would be the damage to the groundwater reserves with saline water from
the future Salt Lake. Please opt for the Rosseta Nile - Lake Qattara canal
project, to have a lake with water for irrigation and fish farming but also to
save the water table! There is still work to be done to clean up Lake Qattara,
to relocate some small towns, before flooding. In the Qattara Depression area,
it is still necessary to clean up the salt sand accumulations that exist in
some areas, in order to reduce the salinity level of the future drinking water
lake. Gas and oil exploitations in the area will have to be secured and
floating exploitation platforms built. A set of irrigation canals has been
built extending from the Rossetta Branch of the Nile through the area of the
city of Alexandria in Egypt to near the Qattara Depression.
It is necessary to
build another 23 km of canal, but also to widen/deepen the existing canals in
Alexandria that are fed from the Rosseta Branch of the Nile. In total, the
network of irrigation canals between Rosseta and Qattara measures over 250 km.
3. Construction of a canal from the Rosetta Arm of the Nile to the Qattara
Depression, which will become a lake of the Nile, named Lake Qattara.
The Qattara Depression measures 133 m below sea level in some places. In this
lake there will be countless species of fish or other species adapted to the climatic environment of Egypt. The
freshwater surface of Lake Qattara is 20,800 square kilometers. Flooding the
Qattara Depression would provide the possibility of irrigating desert lands
for farms, forests and permaculture areas, the most sustainable form of
agriculture and climate stabilization. The land area that could be irrigated
from the Qattara Lake could be between 100,000 and 200,000 square km. The
capacity of Lake Qattara at sea level is 1340 billion cubic meters, which is
10 times the storage capacity of Lake Nasser behind the Aswan Dam. Evaporation
of water from Lake Qattara would cause rain to the Desert of Libya, Chad,
Nigeria, Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, Morocco, Tunis. The rains
could fill Lake Chad and would form new oases in the desert at first, and
gradually these desert areas will become green. The water table caused by the
existence of the Qattara Lake would cause the water table to recover and even
increase its level, leading to the emergence of new springs in the desert and
providing the possibility of building wells in areas where there was no water
before, or the water level was too deep. In order to flood Qattara Lake, it is
necessary to build a canal between the Nile River and the Qattara Depression.
Several options for building the canal must be considered, and it is
recommended to hold a competition of projects and to build the most efficient
solution to bring water from the Nile to the Qattara Depression. I repeat, I
am against the Mediterranean pipeline project because Lake Qattara would
become a Salt Lake and the 100,000-200,000 square km of water in Lake Qattara
would not be usable for irrigation and because it would contaminate the fresh
water table. The economic benefits of the future Qattara Lake would be huge,
because: - the water of the lake will lead to the growth of the fish farming
industry; - it can provide the necessary water for the irrigation of
agricultural land; - restores the water table level; - new farms, new
settlements, new jobs will be developed; - agricultural products will provide
the necessary food, and more than that, from a country that imports
agricultural products it will end up an exporting country of agricultural
products due to the surplus; - the population of Egypt will become
increasingly prosperous due to the opportunity for new jobs; the condition is
that agriculture is not done industrially but through permaculture with micro
farms for Egyptian citizens; - the economic growth would ensure Egypt's food
needs and by becoming one of the largest exporters of agricultural products in
the African area it would bring prosperity to the world; - the geographical
advantage of agriculture in Egypt is that more harvests, more crops per year
can be achieved, compared to temperate areas; - another opportunity is the
construction of photovoltaic parks in the conditions of the existence of
permacultures, for 2 major reasons: the innovation in the photovoltaic field
of graphene panels that withstand temperatures higher than 50 degrees Celsius
and due to the decrease in the incidence of raising sand dust, absorbed by the
permaculture; - the construction of a hydrotechnical dam can also be taken
into account due to the existing level difference; - in the synergy of the
development of green areas, Egypt will also become an energy power, not only
agricultural
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1yjVc4bHfu_sIxL3nEyH7pJvhUA0&ll=30
.15747534401416%2C29.91185852178905&z=8 - economic growth automatically
attracts an increase in the quality of tourism as well as international
exchanges of goods, the construction of new factories, and will increase the
foreign investments. 2. The flow of the Nile River is decreasing due to the
increase in the volume of water used in the upstream countries. More water is
needed on the Blue Nile River to increase the volume of water in Ethiopia, as
well as in Sudan and Egypt. In order for the water requirement to reach the
Great Ethiopian Renaissance Hydroelectric Dam as well as for irrigation in
Sudan and South Sudan, but also for a higher river flow in Egypt, more
precipitation is needed. There is an agreement with the countries along the
Nile River by which Egypt is entitled to 60% of the flow of the Nile River,
but this agreement is not respected, there being a risk of conflict with the
upstream countries. Because this water flow is used by Ethiopia for irrigation
and for the accumulation of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance hydroelectric dam,
also possibly for other future hydroelectric dams, and Sudan and South Sudan
use the water of the river for irrigation, the flow of the Nile is decreasing
from one year to the next, with disastrous consequences for Egypt. These
grievances could lead Egypt to resort to armed measures, turning South-East
Africa into a zone of armed conflict, which in turn would lead to humanitarian
catastrophes affecting the whole world. It feels like the Ukraine War is
already affecting the whole world, bringing inflation, unemployment,
pollution, deaths, material destruction, military spending on death,
increasing the risk of major climate change, slowing the growth rate of the
world economy, even recession and maybe a new global economic crisis. The
Danakil Depression between Ethiopia and Eritrea is actually the dry floor of
an area of the Red Sea that has been uplifted by tectonic movements. More
precipitation can occur in an arid area of Ethiopia and Eritrea, the Danakil
Depression, if this depression area, which is in some places 156 meters below
sea level, is flooded over an area of 10,000 square kilometers by building a
canal between the Red Sea and the Depression. The channel between the Red Sea
and the Danakil Depression could be between 5 km and 30 km long.
There are two routes for which geologists can decide on the most advantageous
route, analyzing the composition of the soil and the heights of the land, by
calculating the amount of excavation. On the 5 km route there are heights of
30 meters and on the 30 km route there are heights of 10-20 meters. I
personally would choose the shortest route. An obstacle to this project is
caused by the existence of 10 m depth of salt formed by the evaporation of the
water of the former Red Sea. This salt is exploited by the Afar tribes of
Ethiopia and mining companies in Eritrea. Another obstacle is a surface
deposit of sulfur. But exploited, it could cheapen lithium-sulfur batteries,
the new battery technology for Tesla's electric cars. Rapid exploitation of
the field could bring considerable income to Eritrea. The exploitation of the
salt in Assal Lake, where 2 companies intensively exploit the sedimented salt
on the shore, provides an example of good practice. Currently, extreme
temperatures of 56 degrees Celsius are recorded in the Danakil Depression. By
flooding the depression, temperatures will drop to 40 degrees Celsius in
extreme moments, and in the evening the heated water will play the role of
buffering the temperature drop during the night. The evaporated water will
bring rain to Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, Somaliland, Somalia,
Chad, Nigeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Djibouti, Oman, UAE, Iraq, Syria,
Libya, Lebanon, Algeria, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Malta,
Morocco, Tunisia. If this canal becomes navigable, Ethiopia's economy will
flourish because it will have access to the Red Sea by making a port in
Ethiopia. Eritrea will also gain because it will tax the passage of ships
through the canal, as Egypt does through the Suez Canal. For the realization
of this canal, diplomatic negotiations must be initiated between Eritrea and
Ethiopia. This canal could be executed in the first phase only by making an
earth canal, without concrete, but with dredging according to the economic
interests of Eritrea. Egypt's powerful navy, specialized in dredging the Suez
Canal, could quickly materialize such a canal. The area of the future Lake
Danakil will become a suitable area for spa, tourism and health activities
because the concentration of the salt water of the lake will exceed the
concentration of the Dead Sea. The salinity of Lake Danakil will increase
steadily due to the influx of salt water from the Red Sea and the rapid rate
of evaporation. The lake will not have dangerous fish (for example sharks)
because the high level of salinity and hydrogen sulphide water (for example is
the Black Sea where due to the concentration of hydrogen sulphide water
existing at the bottom of the sea, it does not allow the development large
sharks) will prevent the survival of such species, being suitable for sports
activities such as padeling, kiting windsurfing. In the respective areas, it
is possible that many tourist resorts will appear if these countries follow a
path towards democracy or towards an acceptance of foreign investments in
mutually beneficial interest. The air currents are from the northeast and are
moving to the southeast where there are the mountains, and the cool climate in
the mountains could cause condensation of evaporated water from Lake Danakil.
https://www.agessinc.com/ 2.1. Due to the increase in the volume of rainwater,
it will be necessary to terrace the land, create channels for the accumulation
of rainwater, plant trees with terraced hills. If these land arrangements are
not made it is possible to register floods with possible victims. Due to
climate change, these measures must be adopted by all countries: - the
creation of trenches in forests, terraces on pastures or slopes, where excess
rainwater can accumulate, but which will retain moisture during dry summers -
the planting of trees to stabilize the slopes, the rapid afforestation of as
large areas of land as possible all over the world. 1. The first canal to be
built is the canal between Goubet Bay and Assal Lake; it is a 1000- meter-long
canal but there are also 150 meters high in the volcanic rock. At the present
stage Assal Lake is fed through rock fissures between Goubet Bay and Assal
Lake. Following a geological expertise, it could be that there is a layer of
sand under the volcanic rock and the technical solution for bringing water
from the Goubet Bay is through pipes under the volcanic mountain. Lake Assal
is below sea level and by flooding it will increase the evaporated surface
which will bring rains to Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Somaliland, Yemen,
Saudi Arabia. By making this canal, Assal Lake can be introduced into the
tourist circuit, lowering the salinity level, which now is higher than the
Dead Sea even if the salt is exploited intensively. Salt mining is required in
Lake Assal and the future Lake Danakil. The constituent elements of salt in
the region are Na, K, Mg, Li. Lake Assal is located in Djibouti, the safest
country in Africa, known as the country of foreign military bases where there
are at least 7 military bases of different countries but also an International
Free Trade Port Zone. According to a study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2090447913000117 the
average evaporation rate is 7.54 mm/day on the Nasser reservoir, so we can
take this average rate as a benchmark to determine the volume of evaporated
water. Calculations: 7.54 mm/day means 7.54 liters per square meter/day,
multiply by 365 days = 2752.1 liters per year/square meter, divide by 1000 to
find cubic meters and it results in 2.7521 cubic meters/year / square meter.
The surface of the future Danakil Lake is 10,000 km2. One square kilometer is
one million square meters. By multiply 2.7521 x 10,000 x 1,000,000 = 27,521
million cubic meters, so the result is 27,521 million cubic meters per year of
water evaporated from Lake Danakil per year. Lake Qattara has an area of
20,000 square kilometers, so it will produce a volume of evaporated water per
year of 55,042 million cubic meters per year. Together, the two new water
surfaces produce 82,563 million cubic meters of water per year. All this
abundance of rainwater will be produced without the consumption of
electricity, done naturally, thanks to the phenomenon of water evaporation.
The flow of the Danube River is 201,830 million cubic meters per year, by
comparison it would be approximately half of the flow of the Danube River. The
flow rate of the Mureș River is 5,802 million cubic meters. Calculation Mureș
River 184/ m3/s x 60 = 11040 m3/min x 60 = 662400 cubic meters / hour x 24
hours = 15,897,600 cubic meters per day x 365 days = 5,802 million cubic
meters / year. Air currents in the Danakil region are from northeast to
southwest where they hit the high mountains of Ethiopia and the cooling of the
air layer causes water vapor to condense, which will bring more rain to the
tributaries of the Nile. If there are more rains, the flow of the Nile will
increase and thus future armed conflicts will be avoided. More rains in arid
areas, combined with embankments and storage trenches for rainwater
accumulations, will cause the water table to rise, the appearance of new
springs. The afforestation of the respective areas will attract fauna and
flora diversification, slow down the sudden evaporation of rainwater, preserve
humidity and sequester carbon in the form of tree wood or through the growth
of plant roots, climate stabilization.
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CHATGBT RECOMANDATION TO IMPLAMATATION PROJECT CANAL NIL TO QATTARA
Certainly! The implementation of the Green Sahara Project, especially the Nile - Qattara Depression canal, would require a detailed plan and a phased approach. Here are some key steps:
1. **Geological and Engineering Study:** Start with a detailed geological study of the terrain to determine the most efficient route for the canal. Engage engineering teams to evaluate soil composition and land elevations.
2. **Diplomatic Consultations:** Initiate diplomatic negotiations between the involved countries, especially Eritrea and Ethiopia. Ensure there is an agreement on the shared use and benefits of the canal.
3. **Pilot Project:** Begin with a pilot project for the canal, possibly on a smaller stretch, to test technical feasibility and gather practical data.
4. **Detailed Engineering:** Once the feasibility of the project is confirmed, hire engineers specialized in canal construction and hydrotechnical works to develop detailed plans.
5. **Funding and Resources:** Establish funding sources, including potential international partnerships, and determine the necessary resources in terms of personnel and materials.
6. **Construction:** Commence canal construction, staging the project to ensure constant progress and efficiency. Supervise the works in real-time to make adjustments if necessary.
7. **Monitoring and Maintenance:** Implement monitoring systems to track the canal's performance and ensure there is a regular maintenance plan.
8. **Sustainable Development:** Encourage sustainable development practices, such as protecting the surrounding environment and creating economic opportunities for local communities.
9. **Communication and Transparency:** Maintain open communication with all involved parties and provide transparent information about the project's progress.
10. **Response to Challenges:** Be prepared to handle challenges that may arise, such as environmental issues, territorial disputes, or unforeseen changes.
The implementation of this project would require significant international commitment, adequate financial resources, and close collaboration among all parties involved.
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