What would be the price tag for using the Qattarra depression for solar-hydro power generation?

[wuushew]

What is the return on investment for such a project? If built, channeling sea water into the desert could provide a technically simple source of hundreds of megawatts of electricity for decades if not centuries.


I searched exhaustively on google, but the last time planning was done was the 1980s.

Are such projects simply too large to obtain the necessary financing? :shrug:

[RC]

1. What of of the Cheetah, gazelle and other wild life there?

Don't they have a say?

[wuushew]

2. I am not familiar with their range

The entire depression would not necessarily be flooded. Some plans call for filling the depression to -60 meters.

The water that does exist there is not fresh, so in the worst case scenario you are merely expanding an already brackish ecosystem.