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I am a pretend engineer, so take this with a grain of salt, but my guess is that because its very hard to perfectly airtight seal a pipe of that length, the siphon would be very hard to maintain.
My guess is pumping losses. Essentially there's friction moving water through a pipe, and the distance would be so long as to make said friction higher than the available suction. It would probably just start cavitating and destroy the pipe.
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