Is a Med-Red Canal possible in Israel?

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Md139115 said:
Just to be clear, I am only asking if it's possible and/or feasible. I am not desperately wedded to the idea, and for that matter, neither is my TL idea.

I fully and freely admit I do not know anything about the topography of the region. In fact, I would honestly like to know what's stopping the Red Sea from flowing into the Dead Sea right now.

All I want to know is if some crazy renaissance genius were to look at the situation on the ground, and had virtually unlimited resources at his disposal, would he try?
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probably not with you know freshwater and all that being uhm important
 

Dathi THorfinnsson

Md139115 said:
Just to be clear, I am only asking if it's possible and/or feasible. I am not desperately wedded to the idea, and for that matter, neither is my TL idea.

I fully and freely admit I do not know anything about the topography of the region. In fact, I would honestly like to know what's stopping the Red Sea from flowing into the Dead Sea right now.

All I want to know is if some crazy renaissance genius were to look at the situation on the ground, and had virtually unlimited resources at his disposal, would he try?
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Google maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/D...0c15882!8m2!3d31.5590287!4d35.4731895!5m1!1e4
choose 'terrain' from the menu, if this isn't set by the URL I posted.

Zoom in until you can see contour lines, find the 200m mark, say, and follow it around.
 

Md139115

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Dathi THorfinnsson said:
Google maps
https://www.google.com/maps/place/D...0c15882!8m2!3d31.5590287!4d35.4731895!5m1!1e4
choose 'terrain' from the menu, if this isn't set by the URL I posted.

Zoom in until you can see contour lines, find the 200m mark, say, and follow it around.
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Dathi THorfinnsson said:
See also
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elisa_Kagan/publication/261409238/figure/fig1/AS:296710740955148@1447752762115/Figure-1-a-The-location-of-the-Ze'elim-outcrop-with-modern-annual-rainfall-contours-in.png
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I... well what about... maybe...

Alright, I'm calling it, this is not terribly feasible, in fact, its probably impossible.

The only way to really move forward would be to flood the valley by 200 extra feet of water, then somehow build a canal from Tiberias to the new Mega Dead Sea that would also swallow half of the Jordan.
 

cmakk1012

Wouldn't a canal just connecting the Med to the Dead Sea be enough? No need to link up to the Red Sea...

After all, better Dead then Red!

Badum pish
 

sloreck

What purpose does a canal here serve? A canal from the Med to the Red Sea serves the same purpose as the one through Suez, but provides zero benefit for the extra difficulty in constructing it and the extra length. If you need locks, that makes it even worse. Even more so a canal from the Med to the Dead Sea - what purpose does this serve.
 

Arkenfolm

A Mediterranean - Dead Sea Canal is actually pretty useful, since it can be used to generate power and keep the waters of the Dead Sea stable.
 

Masked Grizzly

Pity a Med-Red Canal does not seem to be possible even from say El Arish to somewhere south of Taba and north of Nuweiba in Sinai.
 

RogueTraderEnthusiast

If you want to maintain some level of "Not completely fucking the entire ecosystem", you could try something like an early Falkirk Wheel, and then creating the southward canal, and lift/lower people from canal to the red sea and back again.A

It is a bit mental, but not infeasible with late 1800s technology.
 

Hvalrossen

Ahab said:
Its not possible. At all. If you go along the Egyptian border, you got some of the highest mountain area in Israel, with no water at all along the way, while in the Sinai you had the Bitter lakes who made the job alot easier. If you go to the Dead sea and the along the Jordan river and then along the Jesreel valley....you simply don't. I don't see this possible or economical even with today's tech, and it will destroy the local environment completely. You are talking here about recreating the Tong Sea ( it's called that way in hebrew at least..) and it is not possible.
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Can you post a map of the Tong sea? That way it will be easier for us non Hebrew speakers to understand what you are refering to.
 
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