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    Atlantropa, also referred to as Panropa, was a gigantic engineering and colonisation idea that German architect Herman Sörgel devised in the 1920s, and...
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    was a German architect from Bavaria. He was known for popularizing the Atlantropa project, a massive construction project which was conceived initially...
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    from the predictable current at the Strait. In the 1920s and 1930s, the Atlantropa project proposed damming the Strait to generate large amounts of electricity...
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    frequently qualifying based on size. However, an ecumenopolis might qualify. Atlantropa, a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, lowering...
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  • Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Afforestation Agroforestry Atlantropa (Gibraltar Dam) Analog forestry Bering Strait bridge Buffer strip Biomass...
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    1920s, Herman Sörgel proposed the building of a hydroelectric dam (the Atlantropa project) across the Straits, using the inflow current to provide a large...
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    A drawing by Behrens for a proposed skyscraper overlooking the canal locks at the Atlantropa project...
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    customers, useful to calculate the number of users for a fixed link. Atlantropa Bridge of the Horns Extreme Engineering Marmaray Morocco–Spain border...
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  • basin. It was first proposed in 1929 by Herman Sörgel as part of his Atlantropa project, as a way to irrigate the Sahara. In the 1960s, Lake Chad began...
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    low-frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of water Atlantropa, a proposed dam in the Strait of Gibraltar that would have partially reversed...
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    region's natural environment, and the birth of the environmental era. Atlantropa Salt Water Barrier (Delaware River) Moffitt, Mike (2021-04-22). "The spectacularly...
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    California, an anti-dam organization, condemned the scheme as ludicrous. Atlantropa Bridge of the Horns Hydroelectricity Qattara Depression Project Water...
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  • North European Enclosure Dam (NEED) North from Sotra to mainland Norway Atlantropa A Modest Proposal NWS, VRT (2020-02-07). "Komt het ooit zover? Ambitieus...
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    suspected to have been deposited by the Zanclean flood. Messinian evaporite Atlantropa Gautier, F., Clauzon, G., Suc, J.P., Cravatte, J., Violanti, D., 1994...
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    Mediterranean to link Europe with Africa and create the new continent of Atlantropa. He was a member of the all-male literary banqueting club the Trap Door...
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  • business by producing the visual effects for the German television film Atlantropa - Der Traum vom neuen Kontinent. In 2005, a second location, specializing...
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    the dissolution of Syneba put a temporary end to progress on the site. Atlantropa, a scheme for integrating Europe and Africa conceived by Herman Soergel...
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    century. It played a role in some technocratical fantasies, such as the Atlantropa vision in the 1920s and the 1930s (compare the recently failed Desertec...
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  • between the United States and Europe capable of supporting hyperloop. Atlantropa Orkney tunnel Trans-Asian Railway List of transport megaprojects List...
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  • policy, prompted some authors of the period to take up the ambitious Atlantropa project by German architect Herman Sörgel: the construction of a dam across...
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  • 1939 (dt. Amadeus, 1939; sequel of Thérèse Etienne in promotion of the Atlantropa project) Terra Magna, Novel, 1948 Jean-Michel, Novel, 1953 Arietta, Novel...
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