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What are your thoughts on Atlantropa? I haven't really thought about the implications or consequences, I just think we should do it because it would be cool as fuck
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Two rivers flow into the Venice lagoon, the Sile and the Brenta. So as long as you balanced the outflow through the canal, the lagoon wouldn't dry up, but it would turn into freshwater and totally change the largest wetland ecosystem in the Mediterranean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Lagoon
You'd still need to go through 200m of locks to get from the port of Venice to the Atlantic. For reference, the locks at the Three Gorges Dam have an elevation change of 113m. Edit: actually the canal might have a gentle enough slope that you wouldn't need that many locks, it would basically be an artificial river.