The qattara basin project
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TaraDeS — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 06:33 AM)
by /.ㅤ November 19, 2025 10:23 AM
Member since January 25, 2022
I just read about it. What about it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project
And I just have read the AI novel by the OP below. –> Nothing new.
They are about to make similar mistakes to those made with the Aswan Dam.
Result: Barren land.
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TaraDeS — 4 months ago(November 19, 2025 09:34 AM)
Soul_Venom November 18, 2025 05:52 PM
Member since December 12, 2019
Is anyone here familiar with that?
Basically it is an old idea that involves cutting a 60 mile trench from the Mediterranean to the qattara basin in Egypt. It is a huge basin below sea level.
Anyway I consulted with the AI and came up with a better idea but before I share it I want to see who has even passing familiarity with the proposed basin project.
Perhaps you can try Shade Balls before you're cutting.
96 million Shade Balls on this Lake
Happy Hump Day!
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TaraDeS — 4 months ago(November 19, 2025 04:17 PM)
Soul_Venom November 18, 2025 05:52 PM
Member since December 12, 2019
Is anyone here familiar with that?
Basically it is an old idea that involves cutting a 60 mile trench from the Mediterranean to the qattara basin in Egypt. It is a huge basin below sea level.
Anyway I consulted with the AI and came up with a better idea but before I share it I want to see who has even passing familiarity with the proposed basin project.
Btw. this idea (and even its execution) could be much older than you think.
That the pyramids might've been power plants I'v heard first time a few decades ago.
And I support that idea, it would explain a lot (water traces inside, hardly any paintings).
Unfortunately, I can no longer find the old video on YT. This is a more recent one:
The Great Pyramids are Power Plants?! -
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Soul_Venom — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 02:21 AM)
The Grand Qattara Water, Energy & Aquifer System
The Grand Qattara Water, Energy & Aquifer System proposes a controlled, freshwater-based transformation of the Qattara Depression that strengthens Egypt’s long-term water security, stabilizes national energy supply, and protects the Nile Delta. Unlike historical schemes that sought to fill Qattara with Mediterranean seawater—an approach that would create a massive salt-evaporation basin with no freshwater benefit—this project redirects a small, carefully regulated portion of Lake Nasser’s water using volume recovered by reducing Nasser’s evaporation losses. By lowering Lake Nasser’s normal operating level, Egypt can shrink the lake’s exposed surface area and recover several cubic kilometers of water that otherwise vanish into the atmosphere. These recovered volumes form the entire supply for the Qattara system, ensuring that no water is taken from the Delta and no agricultural or domestic demand is affected.
Water is conveyed from Lake Nasser through a fully enclosed transfer tunnel approximately 350–400 miles long. The elevation drop between Nasser and Qattara provides a substantial hydraulic head, allowing the tunnel to generate hydropower as water enters the depression. Because this link is gated at the Nasser end, flows can be opened only during wet years when inflow is abundant, and fully shut during drought years or periods of reduced Nile flow. The enclosed tunnel prevents any desert evaporation losses and gives Egypt complete control over timing, quantity, and quality of the transferred water—something a Mediterranean canal could never achieve.
Once inside Qattara, the project diverges sharply from all past Qattara Sea proposals. Instead of spreading water over thousands of square kilometers to evaporate in the desert sun, the plan relies on a compact engineered core bowl—a deep sub-basin enclosed by berms and shaped to maintain high storage capacity with minimal surface area. To prepare this core basin, the plan incorporates your unique concept of using excavation spoil from tunnel construction to bury and stabilize the loose salt pans at the depression floor. By depositing overburden into the deepest central region, the existing salt crust is sealed beneath a thick, coarse, non-eroding layer. This prevents the formation of future salt storms or corrosive dust events and establishes a stable foundation for long-term water storage.
The most innovative element is the ring-gallery and spoke-tunnel system, adapted directly from your idea of boring tunnels into the basin walls to reduce open-water evaporation while increasing total storage volume. A large, circular tunnel is constructed at depth along the inner slopes of the depression. From this ring, multiple radial spoke tunnels extend outward into target geological formations. Each spoke connects to a network of recharge wells drilled into specific aquifers surrounding Qattara. Instead of relying on a vast surface reservoir—which would lose enormous volumes through evaporation—the system pushes most of the transferred water into the subsurface. The galleries and recharge wells allow the depression to function as a gigantic managed-aquifer-recharge (MAR) platform, storing far more water underground than could ever be economically held above ground. Because underground storage has negligible evaporation, Egypt gains a long-term, drought-resilient water reserve without sacrificing a drop to desert heat.
Floating solar photovoltaic platforms cover selected portions of the core bowl, reducing surface evaporation even further while generating renewable electricity. This power can support local pumping needs, feed the national grid, and enable optional pumped-storage cycles between the core basin and the ring gallery. The combination of hydropower from the Nasser drop, solar generation inside Qattara, and pumped-storage within the depression itself creates a uniquely flexible energy system capable of stabilizing the national grid.
The project also incorporates a new deep outlet from Lake Nasser that releases sediment-rich underflow during high-flow periods. This measure sends much-needed silt downstream to the Nile Valley and Delta, helping rebuild agricultural soils and improving coastal resilience. Because the Qattara transfer relies solely on water recovered by reducing Nasser’s evaporation, the lower Nile’s water supply and the Delta’s irrigation allocation remain fully protected. In effect, the system increases national water resilience while simultaneously reversing decades of sediment starvation caused by the High Dam.
In governance terms, the system is inherently safe: it operates only in surplus years, remains closed in drought, and follows a strict “Delta-first” allocation rule that prohibits Qattara transfers if any downstream demand is unmet. The compact-basin design, buried salt layer, and underground galleries ensure minimal ecological disturbance and create a system that Egypt can scale cautio -
Soul_Venom — 4 months ago(November 21, 2025 01:05 AM)
I have a better and more workable plan. People have been wondering how to handle the issue for decades. I came up with something better in one afternoon.
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Soul_Venom — 4 months ago(November 21, 2025 03:03 AM)
The Ai couldn't come up with **** on its own. I had to ask it what was possible and we went round and round with failed idea after failed idea until we started making progress and eventually came up with a workable plan.
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Donna2.0 — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 09:18 AM)
Stop bothering Africa, okay? They don't need the white man digging up anything else over there. The white man and Spainards already looted all the damn gold, gemstones, crude oil, black slaves and whatever else they could fit into their boats.
Now the white man wanna STEAL
fresh water
from Africa!!!
Put a muzzle on Tits Malone, PI -
TaraDeS — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 12:21 PM)
Donna2.0 November 20, 2025 10:18 AM
Member since May 23, 2024
Stop bothering Africa, okay? They don't need the white man digging up anything else over there. The white man and Spainards already looted all the damn gold, gemstones, crude oil, black slaves and whatever else they could fit into their boats.
Now the white man wanna STEAL fresh water from Africa!!!
Donna should look into who the most
'successful'
slave traders were.
And what Egyptians think of Black people.
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Soul_Venom — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 01:52 PM)
Nothing in my post suggested anything of the sort you insufferable racist twat. I suggested an alternate project to the one Egypt is already considering and which would help.them CONSERVE the water they are losing to evaporation.
Now, kindly **** off and die.
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TaraDeS — 4 months ago(November 20, 2025 12:27 PM)
soapbox original gangster November 20, 2025 01:23 PM
Member since October 31, 2021
I suspect that if Egypt hasn't already convinced the Arab world to invest and make this a reality then the whole thing is speculation
Modern Egyptians are part of the Arab world.
Ancient Egyptians are a different story.
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