Thursday, February 11, 2010

Filling the Dead Seas, The Dead Sea

In the first article of this series, Filling The Dead Seas, I covered the formation of the dead seas, and the reasons to fill in the dead seas.

I also explained how to safely refill the dead seas such as the African Rift Valley, the Arabian dead seas and the Great Australian Dead Sea.

Two dead seas have similar barriers separating the seas from their oceans.

Because the barriers are so similar I will explain the physical or geology of the Dead Sea, the only three viable solutions as well as some wrong and/or disastrous solutions.

The Dead Sea

All of the lands surrounding the Dead Sea are ‘rotten’.

Riddled with caves, caverns and old water runs, the land, to the depth of the Dead Sea is brittle and dry. The rock is mainly sandstone, which instead of fossilizing into true stone is disintegrating back into sand.

The water tables are below the depth of the Dead Sea.

The dam, located on the north rim of the Dead Sea, has raised the water table in that area, only. However, that entire area sits on and in a shallow glass or obsidian shield.

The land beneath the dam and the backed up water is ‘rotten’, as rotten as the rest of the lands surrounding the Dead Sea.

The dam and holding shield are both on borrowed time. It has been publicly acknowledged, that a moderate earthquake in the right location will cause the dam to fail and collapse.

A moderate earthquake in the same location will also shatter the holding shield.

The sudden loss of all that water will cause a devastating earth shift or rebound.

If there are any survivors, they will have no reachable water and their land will continue to collapse out from under them.

There are a group of people living on a small amount of land, between to countries. This land is just as ‘rotten’ as the rest of the land surrounding the Dead Sea. But this land is in extreme danger.

This land has only a few, very thin glass or obsidian shield, that run vertically.

On one side the entire weight of the ocean, on the other side, dry, barren soil and disintegrating sandstone. A moderate earthquake in the right locations and this bit of land is gone.

These people are literally sitting on a knives edge.

There is only one-way to stabilize these lands, the Dead Sea must be filled.

Not refilled fast or violently but refilled gradually, to reduce earth shifts, to refill the water tables, to allow the soil and sandstone to absorb the water and to stabilize the lands.

First, to protect their people, their homes and their land, the owners of the dam must begin to slowly increase the release of the held back water.

The above ground water volume must be decreased by a minimum of three quarters. Small dams, scattered around the area, with much smaller water volumes will spread the weight and greatly increase the safety and viability of the people.

Most of the released water will not reach the Dead Sea. It will vaporize and be evaporated before reaching the Dead Sea, itself. A small amount will fall back into the Dead Sea as a rain.

How to fill the Dead Sea.

1. There is a massive underground tributary, that runs deep under the Dead Sea. This can be drilled into and released.

Much in the way the Sultan Sea USA is refilling.

This source alone would refill the Dead Sea in 60 to 70 years, depending on the original drill sized hole and the corrosive action of the pressurized water passing through it.

But given the political situations in the Dead Sea area, this solution may be too dangerous for the drill crews.

A shame, because, this solution offers the fastest, safest and most cost effective way to stabilize the lands.

The water inflow, from the bottom up, would be the safest, as the weight would be constant under the Dead Sea and the lands, with the earth only making slight adjustments to the water volume above the Dead Sea level.

2. There are several high pressure seeps in the Dead Sea. A bunker busting type rocket…

Multiple warheads…hit, explode, pass through, hit explode and pass through, etc

One per each seep should open most of these seeps up. A quick in and out with planes, will help to ensure the safety of the equipment and pilots.

These sources alone will take more than a hundred years to fill the Dead Sea.

The lands surrounding the Dead Sea do not have a hundred years, to wait.

By opening up these sources, the gradual filling of the water tables and the absorption of the soil will begin to stabilize the lands.

True, this will only stabilize the land up to the water levels of the Dead Sea.

But every day will stabilize the lands a tiny bit higher up and this solution has the advantage of being easy to begin. A few planes, a few bunker busters, some fuel and pilots and this project could be finished in less than 20 minutes.

If solution 2 was implemented immediately and solution 1, the drilling, started and completed within three months, expense would be negligible and the Dead Sea filled within 50 years, approx.

Most of the worlds politicians prefer to spend money, our money.

Let me describe some expensive and disastrously wrong solutions.

3. An expensive and disastrous solution.

Open trench, from the Dead Sea to the ocean.

There is only one place to put this trench and that is across the small amount of land that has the thin vertical shields.

Remember this land is ‘rotten’, so you can not dig a deep (very deep) steep sided trench.

The ‘rotten’ ground will not, can not hole the steep walls of the trench.

The trench will have to be dug in steps, the first step a minimum of a half a mile wide. The vibrations and the weight of the machinery will cause landslides and cave ins. Extremely dangerous for the equipment operators.


However, politicians like to spend money. With lots of concrete, the sides of the trench steps can be reinforced enough to finish the trench.

The day the ocean side of the trench is opened, the ocean will rush into the trench, just like the experts planned, it will reach the end of the trench and flow into the hot air and mostly evaporate.

Note: The mostly evaporate portion depends on the depth of the water in the trench.

If the trench floor is dirt, (keep in mind that water is a solvent) the water will cut a deeper trench at the Dead Sea end of the trench. Within hours the trench will cut deep enough that the

Dead Sea will be full of water.

The collapsing trench sides will not slow down the water. The earth shifts and quakes will begin before the Dead Sea is full.

The country with the dam will cease to exist, the land with the trench will cease to exist, three other countries will suffer substantial damage, with deaths counted in the ten on millions.

If the trench floor and sides are cement (remember this land is ‘rotten’) the vibration of the moving trench water will open passages under and around the trench floor and sides.

The ocean will still fill the Dead Sea, a cement trench floor and sides may buy a few extra hours, but the results will be the same as a trench with a dirt floor.

4. An expensive but forever maintenance solution.

Siphoning water from the ocean to the Dead Sea.

I00 hundred 3 foot ID pipes, stretched from below ocean low tide, up and over the land, to the level to the Dead Sea floor.

Each of the 100 hundred pipes will need lots of one way valves, once in place you start the pumps, until a pipe is siphoning, then start the pumps to get the next pipe siphoning until every pipe is siphoning water from the ocean to the Dead Sea floor.

As long as the suction is not broken, the pipes will continue to siphon the water, forever or until the pipes rust away.

You will need constant military presence and full time maintenance. Even a hundred, a thousand or ten thousand years from now the pipes must be maintained. And possibly guarded.

Let us face facts. You will need many more than 100 3 foot ID pipes to fill the Dead Sea. 100 3-foot ID pipes all siphoning, will barely maintain a full Dead Sea, at least, without another significant water source.

5. Sideways drilling, below water level, is not an alternative. Remember this land is ‘rotten’, disintegrating sandstone, extremely porous and dry.

You will end up with the trench problems.

6. Another low cost, viable, fairly safe solution.

In the ocean, south and slightly west of the Dead Sea are lava tubes and cave systems, at or below the existing depth of the Dead Sea bottom. These tubes and cave systems lay close to the Dead Sea floor.

Small charges delivered by cable tethered, remote controlled subs and placed far enough apart to fracture, not shatter, the shields when detonated, will fill the Dead Sea from below.

The dead seas will refill. The only question is will we help them to refill or will nature refill them.

In the next article I will explain some of the ways to refill other Dead Seas. Look for ‘Filling The Dead Seas Other Dead Seas’.





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