Transatlantic Freshwater Aqueduct

Abstract

This paper offers a technical and geopolitical reappraisal of a macroengineering proposal to plumb Earth's freshwater, siphoning some of it from a region of surplus (Amazon River Basin) to a region of shortage (arid northern Africa) via his positively buoyant (subsurface floating) seabed-anchored Transatlantic Freshwater Aqueduct. Two different routes for the pipeline, of length 4,317 and 3,745 km, respectively, have been considered. Pipe diameters larger than 60 m are necessary for "reasonable" low pumping power (i.e., less than 20 GW). Using a bundle of smaller size pipes instead of a larger single pipe might overcome technical difficulties but the advantage of simplifying the construction technology might be exceeded by the disadvantage of consuming more power in operation. To keep the number of pumping stations reasonably small (i.e. fewer than 20) a single pipe of diameter higher than 30 m (or bundles of smaller diameter pipes) is required. The Atlantic Ocean currents may be used to provide the necessary power for pumps. The available power possibly provided by the North Brazil Current ranges between 2 and 9 GW. The North Equatorial Current may provide less than 0.3 GW power while the North Equatorial Counter Current provides the largest power availability, ranging between

Galvanic Tripartite Amazon River Basin Macro- Imagineering

“…Obviously latitudinal in prescribed geographical pattern, such a commercial trade route will bisect South America's Tropic Zone landscape; a latitudinal geographical orientation for virtually all industrial infrastructures dependent on the Amazon River's water is a Macro-Imagineering given. Team Geographos and others [24][25] have comprehensively proposed costly intercontinental freshwater pipelines to convey freshwater collected at a mouth of the Amazon River [26] for controlled transport to Africa. The outflow harvested for shipment overseas via pipeline is insufficient to cause any meridional dipole ocean surface temperature anomaly from developing in the equatorial North Atlantic Ocean [27].…”

Antarctica-to-Western Australia Liquid Freshwater Shipments Using Stauber Bags in a Paternoster-Like Transfer System: Inaugurating a Southern Ocean Antidrought Action Sea-Lane

“…The ''practicability final assessment'' in this particular southern Polar Zone longitudinal application is that discrete freshwater-carrying barge shipments in terms of strict transportation schedules are preferable to a latitudinal Equatorial Zone freshwater-conveying submerged buoyant pipeline installation without a timetable for connecting Western Australia's possible consumers to Antarctica's known potential subglacial liquid freshwater resources (Badescu, Isvoranu, and Cathcart, 2009;Finkl and Cathcart, 2011). Australia is the first successful claimant-state to delimit an extended continental shelf in the territory governed by the 1 December 1959 Antarctic Treaty (Collis, 2010;Jabour, 2009); this defined international legal status will helpfully support Australia's future claims to an isolated renewable liquid freshwater resource to be ''mined'' at an unsurveyed freshwater-filled cavity near the sea grounding zone (at ,72u S) of a moving glacier, the 60,000-km 2 Amery Ice Shelf, without harming either the visible icescape or the Southern Ocean seawater, from beneath the floating ice shelf that is indisputably located within the delimited and demarcated Australian Antarctic Territory (Galton-Fenzi et al, 2008).…”

Sustainable Design of an Artificial Lake in Jafer Basin Based on Gravity Flow

“…A proposal to plumb freshwater from Amazon River to Africa via subsurface Transatlantic Aqueduct was offered by Badescu et al [19]. An initial artificial Lake design was presented by Badescu et al [20]; where they proposed a pipeline to bring seawater to Lake Eyre in Australia.…”