The Qattara Sea

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Confused? Check out the map at the start of the thread. It shows the water coming from the Med, leading to a hydro-electric power plant i.e. converting the flow of water into a green, no-carbon based power resource. I would expect there would be a way of extracting the salt from the water.
Easy to imagine other developments from tourism, to fish farming.

Egypt generates quite enough hydroelectricity from the many dams it has built along the Nile, (dams which also prove quite useful for irrigation). Egypt already generates more electricity than it can sell to its neighbours, there'd be no incentive for them to engage in such a massive project.

The Libyans, on the other hand, would have a lot to gain from it. If you could think of a POD that'd shift the Egypto-Libyan border a few hundred miles east, then there'd probably be a hydroelectricity-generating Qattara sea.
 
If Eygpt [Britain] starts this in the 1920's, ?Is there a suitable depression in Libya for Mussolini to built a competitor project? which requires france to build the Tununisian canal.

The Great Canal Race of the 1930's -- which will have political butterflies in the 60's Moon Race.
 
An Advantageous Depression

So far, you've only listed technical advantages (hydroelectricity, marine chemicals and metals recovery, distillation/desalination).

Egypt needs employment for its teeming millions in Cairo...

...Go west, Young Hamid ! :D

Cheers !
 
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