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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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    A drawing by Behrens for a proposed skyscraper overlooking the canal locks at the Atlantropa project...
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    Frei Otto, Constant Nieuwenhuys, Yona Friedman, and Buckminster Fuller. Atlantropa, a hydroelectric dam to be built across the Strait of Gibraltar, lowering...
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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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    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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  • North European Enclosure Dam (NEED) North from Sotra to mainland Norway Atlantropa NWS, VRT (2020-02-07). "Komt het ooit zover? Ambitieus plan voor dijk...
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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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  • Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island. Afforestation Agroforestry Atlantropa (Gibraltar Dam) Analog forestry Bering Strait bridge Buffer strip Biomass...
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