🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 16 May 1996 meron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote:

> In article <eaSGTVA73jmxEweD@upthorpe.demon.co.uk>, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk> writes:
> >In article <4nd5mh$5og@pauling.wadsworth.org>, William Tivol
> ><tivol@news.wadsworth.org> writes
> >>: kitana2@ix.netcom.com(Lana) wrote:
> >>: >
> >>: >    What kind of alternative energy source (other than fossil fuels) is
> >>: >available in Egypt?
> >
> >s'obvious.
> >
> >Use (wait for it) pyramid power. It produces lots of Horus power.
> >
> >I take it we have all discounted hydro power, is the Nile all used up?
> >
> Not only is it quite used up, but the usage probably generated more 
> damage then good.  A significant part of the power output of the Aswan 
> Dam is dedicated to the production of fertilizers which were not
> needed at all before the dam was build (the annual flooding of the 
> Nile Delta maintained it fertile indefinitely).

Not only has the reduced flow of the Nile reduced the fertilisation
effects of the flooding, but it has also radically changed the sediment
flow and deposition in both the Nile and the Delta.  The Delta is now
suffering channel silting and erosion which had hitherto *never* been a
problem.  

Although I've seen no published paperwork, there are claims amongst the 
scientific community in Egypt that the 'slower' flow of the Nile may also
account for increased numbers of problematic water life, such as the water
hyacynth and a number of invertibrate parasites.

Before the High Dam, the Nile was 'regulated' by a number of smaller
barrages along its length, each with some hydro potential along with their
primary task of regulating flow and flow into irrigation channels.  They
appear to be maintaining the irrigation flow but I'm not so sure that the
remianing flow offers much for hydro generation.

> 
> Mati Meron			| "When you argue with a fool,
> meron@cars.uchicago.edu		|  chances are he is doing just the same"
> 
> 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------
PPPPPH     H  | Peter Halls - University of York Computing Service -
P    P     H  |                        GIS Advisor
P    P     H  | Email: P.Halls@YORK.AC.UK
PPPPPJHHHHHH  | Telephone: 01904 433806  FAX: 01904 433740
P    J     H  | Smail: Computing Service,
P    J     H  |        University of York,
P    J     H  |        Heslington.
     J        |        YORK Y01 5DD
 J   J        |        England.
  JJJ   This message has the status of a private & personal communication
--------------------------------------------------------------------------