The Atlantropa Project: A giant dam to drain the Mediterranean
A German engineer proposed in 1931 a 14.2 km-wide dam between Europe and Africa.
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The fact
The project aimed to generate energy and create new agricultural land.
Deemed unrealistic, it remains an example of 20th-century energy megaprojects.
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