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The Itaipu Dam is the second (formerly first) largest dam in the world, located on the Brazil-Paraguay Border. Its construction ended up flooding such a large resovoir that it ended up displacing the former largest waterfall system by volume in the world, Guaira Falls.

The installed generation capacity of the plant is 14 GW, with 20 generating units providing 700 MW each with a hydraulic design head of 118 metres (387 ft). In 2016 the plant generated a record 103.1 TWh, the most of any single power-generating structure in the world. supplying approximately 75% of the electricity consumed by Paraguay and 17% of that consumed by Brazil.

The dam has a volume of 12,300,000 cubic meters, is nearly 8,000 meters wide, and takes a water inflow of over 60,000 cubic meters per second.

The Three Gorges Dam is a Chinese Hydroelectric Dam on the Yangtze River, and the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The Three Gorges Dam is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity (22,500 MW). In 2014 the dam generated 98.8 TWh of electricity, setting a new world record by 0.17 TWh previously held by the Itaipú Dam on the Brazil/Paraguay border in 2013 of 98.63.

As well as producing electricity, the dam is intended to increase the Yangtze River's shipping capacity and reduce the potential for floods downstream by providing flood storage space. The construction of the dam flooded so much area that it displaced over 1.3 million people. The dam is 181 meters high, 2,335 meters long, 115 meters wide at the base, and has a water inflow of nearly 120,000 cubic meters per second, and cost over $27 billion to build.

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The Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal of North America a proposed water management superproject designed to safely manage all North American water resources and prevent a water crisis. It would require the construction of numerous massive dams and canals to drastically redirect large water sources from the US and Canada.

The most important part of the project was a proposal to dam James Bay, and using the techniques of the Zuiderzee/Ijsselmeer in the Netherlands, to prevent its waters mixing with the salt water of Hudson Bay to the north. This would produce an enormous freshwater lake, rivalling the largest of the Great Lakes in area. A percentage of that water would then be pumped south into Georgian Bay where it would increase the freshwater levels of the lower Great Lakes. The flow would be the equivalent to 2.5 Niagara Falls.

The project would have caused major geographical changes to the waterscape and landscape of North America and its estimated cost was over $100 Billion.

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lol no chance to ever happen.

>muh environments
>muh natives

The reason Sup Forums shitposting is popular is because SJW fucktards have literally dragged the world to a halt with their degeneracy. Not even cool engineering mega projects are safe.

The Qattara Depression Project is a concept for a megaproject in Egypt intended to develop the Qattara Depression by flooding it. The depression is a region that lies below sea level and is currently a vast desert. By connecting the region and the Mediterranean Sea with tunnels and/or canals, water could be let into the area.

The proposals call for a large canal or tunnel being excavated of about 55 to 80 kilometers depending on the route chosen to the Mediterranean Sea to bring seawater into the area. Alternatively a 320 kilometre pipeline north-east to the freshwater Nile River at Rosetta. For comparison, the nearby Suez Canal is currently 193 kilometers in length. By balancing the inflow and evaporation the lake level can be held constant. Several proposed lake levels are -70, -60, -50 and -20 m. The depression is so large by volume that flooding it to -20 m would lower the height of the world ocean by 2.16 milimeters.

The project could result in massive geographically reshaping results such as turning the Qattara region into a relative oasis, increasing its rainfall and humidity, and making it more viable for an ecological biome in the area as well as making its land arable for use by farmers. The project would undoubtedly cost tens of billions of dollars at least.

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The Lake Eyre Canal is a hypothetical Engineering superproject which would via a canal or series of canals, all hundreds of kilometers long, transport a large amount of water from the Indian Ocean to Lake Eyre, which is the lowest elevated point in all of Australia, at 15 meters below sea level. This would have the effect of dramatically increasing the area and volume of the lake to as much as 2-4x its original size. The world ocean would drop by a measurable level, much as in the Qattara Depression Project. However, less is known exactly in this instance, as the Eyre Lake would eventually evaporate over time if more salt water was introduced and leave only a salt pan. More research is needed to be done into the area or better desalination techniques would be needed to create a usable large body of water in the middle of the Australian desert, which would have the utility of perhaps making the surrounding areas available for farming or perhaps tourism.

The Space Elevator Concept is a hypothetical engineering Hyperproject which would be the largest engineering project likely to be ever undertaken by mankind. It entails the construction of a structure long enough to reach Earth's Geosynchronous Orbit, about 35,800 kilometers above sea level, above which a counterweight, such as a space loading and docking station would likely be built in order to counteract torsion forces. The structure would be held in place by the tension of the earth's rotational forces acting upon it and would be used to mechanically move objects into orbit without the use of conventional rocket fuels, which currently greatly limit the efficiency of getting objects into Earth's orbit. Potential decreases of energy used to get objects into orbit once a space elevator is in operation as opposed to a conventional rocket could be of factors as high as 100.

A Space Elevator would undoubtedly cost upwards of trillions of dollars in current economic terms and would likely be the largest, most resource-intensive, and dedicated engineering project pursued by mankind given our current understanding of engineering physics, at least until bizarre concepts and/or technologies such as warp drives become known to us.

The Sahara Sea is a hypothetical megaproject which proposes flooding portions of the Sahara Desert with waters from the Atlantic Ocean or Mediterranean Sea. The goal is to create an inland sea that would cover substantial areas of the Sahara Desert which lie below sea level, bringing humid air, rain and agriculture deep into the desert. Numerous basins in the Sahara are below sea level, such as El Djouf, which has an average elevation of nearly 60 meters below sea level. If a channel were cut into this area and the basin flooded it could create an inland sea approximately 160,000 square kilometers in size. Geological evidence actually shows that this basin was historically connected to the Atlantic before humanity knew of it.

Chott El Fejej is another floodable basin, which could result in an inland sea approximately 8,000 square kilometers in size. Such projects would have the potential of changing the inner Sahara's climate, introducing much more water and humidity and transforming the climate to be much more hospitable to travelling humans and agriculture, much the same as the Qattara Depression Project. Such a project(s) would again cost at the least billions of dollars.

So basically it's a water system designed to take Canada's near endless supply of fresh water and send it all to the US to control and profit from.

Just like oil!

Atlantropa was a gargantuan hyperproject with the aim of fundamentally geographically reshaping the entirety of the Mediterranean Basin, Southern Europe, and Northern Africa. It involved creating a massive hydroelectric dam across the Strait of Gibraltar, four dams across the Dardanelles to hold teh Black Sea, dams between Sicily and Tunisia to provide a roadway and lower the Mediterranean Sea, on the Congo river to refill the Mega-Chad Basin to irrigate the Sahara and create a shipping lane to the African interior, and along the Suez Canal as extensions and locks to maintain the Mediterranean's connection to the Red Sea.

The project would lower the Mediterranean Sea by as much as 100-200 meters, moreso in some parts than others, and the Gibraltar Dam would be truly massive an awe-inspiring, a 9-mile wide dam up to 900 meters deep at its deepest, although not nearly so much on average, would generate enough hydroelectricity to power perhaps even entire countries.

Such a project would cost at least trillions of dollars and perhaps rival even a space elevator in terms of scope and scale, and would take at least tens of years to work on and construct in its entirety. In terms of ecological manmade impact upon the planet this project would likely surpass the combined effects of all other human projects in mankind's history.

The Red Sea dam is a speculative macro-engineering proposal put forward in 2007 by a group of scientists and engineers. The idea is to dam the Red Sea at its southern end where the Bab-al-Mandab Strait is only 29 km (18 mi) wide. Natural evaporation would rapidly lower the level of the enclosed Red Sea. Water rushing back into the sea would then drive turbines to generate electricity. It is claimed that up to 50 gigawatts of electrical power could be generated, more than double that of Itaipu or Three Gorges, dwarfing all other power schemes worldwide.

The project would cause untold and unpredictable change and perhaps damage to local ecology and water sources, and would cost tens of billions of dollars, but such projects and decisions are what have to be made in the modern world in which such a premium is put on clean, renewable energy.

A Trans-Global Highway is a speculative engineering superproject with the goal of providing fixed links between the major inhabited landmasses of the world, via most likely rail or road. Certain smaller scale projects such as the Chunnel in England or projects in Scandinavia and Gemany have already provided land links between areas formerly isolated by sea, but a project which would unite very large and separated continental masses would be much larger and require much more labor and resources. Recently Russia has proposed a project which would hopefully attempt to link the Eurasian landmass to North America via a hypothetical bridge from Siberia to Alaska. Such a bridge could be underwater like the chunnel from England to France or take the form of a rugged and fortified oversea bridge designed to withstand the harsh Bering Sea.

The South–North Water Transfer Project is a multi-decade Chinese megaproject currently being constructed. It aims to channel 44.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water annually from the Yangtze River in southern China to the more arid and industrialized north through three canal systems:

The Eastern Route through the course of the Grand Canal;
The Central Route flowing from the upper reaches of the Han River (a tributary of Yangtze River) to Beijing and Tianjin;
The Western Route which goes from three tributaries of Yangtze River near the Bayankala Mountain to provinces like Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia.

Mao Zedong and others in the Chinese government had discussed the idea for a mass engineering project as an answer to China's water problems as early as 1952, knowing that water was unequally distributed throughout the country. The complete project was expected to cost $62 billion – more than twice as much as the Three Gorges Dam. By 2014, more than $79 billion had been spent, making it one of the most expensive engineering projects in the world.

The Project involves numerous massive canals and gigantic pumping stations running along thousands of total miles of river in total which individually pump as much as a billion cubic meters of water per year running continuously.

Can we use something like this to drown all the niggers?

The Northern river reversal was an ambitious superproject to divert the flow of the Northern rivers in the Soviet Union, which cannot be productively used by humans, as they drain into the Arctic Ocean, southwards towards the populated agricultural areas of Central Asia, which lack water.

Research and planning work on the project started in the 1930s, and was carried out on a large scale in the 1960s through the early 1980s. The controversial project was abandoned in 1986, primarily for environmental reasons, without much actual construction work ever done.

In 1961, Some 120 institutes and agencies participated in the impact study coordinated by the Academy of Sciences; a dozen conferences were held on the matter. The promoters of the project claimed that extra food production due to the availability of Siberian water for irrigation in Central Asia could provide food for some 200,000,000 people.

The plans involved not only irrigation but also the replenishing of the shrinking Aral Sea and Caspian Sea.

So you're stealing Canada's water.

shut up zainichi-kun

He has a point though.

We should make it US territory first.

This is dumb salt water in desert (like desert has soil to hold water) plus goodbye Novosibirsks and Omsks agriculture and people continental climate would kill this project quite quickly.

The Tres Amigas Superstation is a planned project to unite North America’s two major power grids (the Eastern Interconnection and the Western Interconnection) and one minor grid (the Texas Interconnection), with the goal to enable faster adoption of renewable energy and increase the reliability of the U.S. grid. The project will use superconducting wires from Massachusetts-based American Superconductor Corp for electrical distribution and to interconvert AC and DC power.

The project proposes to tie the East Coast, West Coast and Texas grids together via three 5 GW superconductive high-voltage direct current power transmission lines, which permit a controlled flow of energy while also functionally isolating the independent AC frequencies of each side. The design is scalable to 30 GW. Tres Amigas would use high-temperature superconductor wire supplied by American Superconductor Corp.

The project plans to act as a power market hub, enabling the buying and selling of electricity among three of North America's largest interconnections above the amount available today.

The project will provide solar, wind and other renewable developers with the transmission infrastructure needed to transport clean electricity to population centers.

Early estimates of the cost put the project budget at around $1 billion, but now at $2 billion. As of yet, the project has not been started.

Good luck getting those niggers to maintain the dam

You want great engineering projects? I'm on it

> Unironically linking the Atlantic without an archive
Really, nigger?

Well fucking make it happen. All these stupid plans that never happen or way too late.

Fucking politics man.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuiderzee_Works

The Zuiderzee and Delta Works are a superproject undertaken by the Netherlands in the 20th century in order to control flooding and water levels in the country, as well as to reclaim a huge amount of land which would otherwise be underwater.

The Delta Works (Dutch: Deltawerken) is a series of construction projects in the southwest of the Netherlands to protect a large area of land around the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta from the sea. The works consist of dams, sluices, locks, dykes, levees, and storm surge barriers. The aim of the dams, sluices, and storm surge barriers was to shorten the Dutch coastline, thus reducing the number of dikes that had to be raised.

The Zuiderzee Works (Dutch: Zuiderzeewerken) are a man-made system of dams and dikes, land reclamation and water drainage works, in total the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century. The project involved the damming of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the reclamation of land in the newly enclosed water using polders. Its main purposes are to improve flood protection and create additional land for agriculture.

The two projects together have been declared one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

By constructing the projects the Netherlands was able to reclaim land from the sea and water totalling approximately 17% of its current land area, and reduce the need for future flood control construction, while increasing its agricultural sustainability and output, currently being the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world after the USA.

Damn just beat me to it

>Flood Sahara
>Cause radical climate change worldwide
Who comes up with these godawful ideas?

Crazy and ambitious people. Of course massive projects have a massive impact on the environment, and the larger they get the more pronounced and wide ranging their effects are. Do you not think that the construction of the Itaipu radically changed its local climate/ecology? It literally flooded one of the largest and most beautiful waterfall systems in the world with a giant bland resovoir.

Also funny enough, the Amazon is actually pseudo-fertilized by massive amounts, say millions of tons annually, of diatoms and dust blown in from the Sahara on jet streams, so it would likely have crazy effects on the Amazon rainforests and other local ecology relevant to you in particular.

>ywn go on a road trip around the world

The Nicaraguan Canal is a planned shipping route and engineering superproject through Nicaragua to connect the Caribbean Sea, and therefore the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

The canal would stretch approximately 273 kilometers inward from the Atlantic before reaching the large freshwater Lake Nicaragua, and then about 30 to the Pacific on the West. While seemingly redundant with the Panama Canal, this landmass is sturdier and has the potential to build a much wider canal, and Lake Nicaragua is very large and deep compared to Lake Gatun, made by the Panama Canal. This would allow the largest cargo ships in the world, now longer than the Empire State Building is tall, to travel through the canal easily, which is not possible at the Panama Canal.

Of course Itaipu had environmental impacts but expanding an already existing body of water is nowhere close to flooding an enormous desert. Like you said it would impact the Amazon forest, the climate of the entire South America and consequently the world. It just baffles me that people unironically make a proposal like this with such (hypothetical) consequences in mind.

I think it's worth note that a lot of proposed mega engineering projects date to early 20th century or before, so they come from eras before a really good understanding of global climate science. They pretty much didn't know the long term consequences.

They had good intentions, many of these were meant to improve the areas drastically for people.

That shit ain't gonna happen until you sort out your kike and nigger problems.

Ironically enough the Nazis were actually planning on pursuing a ton of massive, large-scale megaprojects, such as turning Berlin into one of the architectural capitals of the world. Chief among these projects was the Volkshalle/Grosse Halle, a planned Neoclassical Pantheon-style domed megastructure which was planned on sitting atop a granite podium 243 meters long and wide and 74 meters high and being about 290 meters tall, with a dome 250 meters in diameter. To think what we missed out on building because of the outcome of the war.

The Shimizu TRY 2004 Mega-City Pyramid is a proposed Shimizu Corporation project for the construction of a massive pyramid over Tokyo Bay in Japan. The structure would be more than 2,000 meters tall measured from mean sea level, including 5 stacked trusses, and would house 1,000,000 people. This pyramid would help answer Tokyo's increasing lack of space, although the project would only handle a small fraction of the population of the Greater Tokyo Area.

the pyramid's foundation would be formed by 36 piers made of special concrete.

Because the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire cuts right through Japan, the external structure of the pyramid would be an open network of megatrusses, supporting struts made from carbon nanotubes to allow the pyramid to stand against and let through high winds, and survive earthquakes and tsunamis.

The trusses would be coated with photovoltaic film to convert sunlight into electricity and help power the city. The city will also be powered by pond scum or algae.

Robotic systems are planned to play a major part in both construction and building maintenance.

The proposed structure is so large that it could not be built with current conventional materials, due to their weight. The design relies on the future availability of super-strong lightweight materials based on carbon nanotubes presently being researched.

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