[Environmental Science and Engineering] Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments || Wave Powered Desalination

✍ Scribed by Badescu, Viorel; Cathcart, Richard B.

• Book ID: 118192093
• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: German
• Weight: 873 KB
• Edition: 2011
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 3642147798
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14779-1_29

✦ Synopsis

The subjects refer to histories of ancient and modern use of seacoasts; possible macro-projects capable of massive changes in the coastlines of the Dead Sea, Red Sea and Persian Gulf caused by canal and massively scaled hydropower dam installations; relevant macro-projects for the Black Sea and Baltic Sea; possibilities of refreshment of the Aral Sea and Iran’s Lake Uremia with seawater or river freshwater importation macro-projects; potential rehabilitation of some vital arid zone regions now dominated by moving or movable surface granular materials using unique and unusual macro-projects; seawater flooding of land regions situated below present-day global sea-level; harnessing energy and obtaining freshwater from the world’s salt-laden ocean by modern industrial means; various macro-projects designed specifically for the protection (reduction of vulnerability) of particular Earth geographical regions.