it's a worldbuilding project I sort of brainstormed up myself, but I have some excel tables with relevant numbers scribbled in.
Basically China is already reclaiming a lot of land, they turned something like thousands of 20,000sqmi of coastal ocean into land over the last few decades (my memory might be off on this, but it's a big number)
problem is, this reclamation will get a lot harder as the coastline deepens. Instead of dredging from -5ft, they'll have to dredge from -50 ft.
There's a huge amount of land underneath the Sunda shelf, and it could be easily drained and turned into land. Basically a free North America. But that's a long ways off.
A more doable project for this century is to build a dam across Bangladesh which will 1) prevent flooding of Bangladesh and India's W.Bengal, and 2) capture huge amounts of rainwater and Brahmaputra river runoff for use in the Thar desert/Xinjiang/Pakistan
South Korea did a small version of this in the 90s with the Saemangeum Dike.
Is there anywhere I can read more about this? This is super interesting
it's a worldbuilding project I sort of brainstormed up myself, but I have some excel tables with relevant numbers scribbled in.
Basically China is already reclaiming a lot of land, they turned something like thousands of 20,000sqmi of coastal ocean into land over the last few decades (my memory might be off on this, but it's a big number)
problem is, this reclamation will get a lot harder as the coastline deepens. Instead of dredging from -5ft, they'll have to dredge from -50 ft.
There's a huge amount of land underneath the Sunda shelf, and it could be easily drained and turned into land. Basically a free North America. But that's a long ways off.
A more doable project for this century is to build a dam across Bangladesh which will 1) prevent flooding of Bangladesh and India's W.Bengal, and 2) capture huge amounts of rainwater and Brahmaputra river runoff for use in the Thar desert/Xinjiang/Pakistan
South Korea did a small version of this in the 90s with the Saemangeum Dike.
If anyone wants my figures (very disorganized and maybe barely understandable), here:
https://i.imgur.com/MWzQ6Of.png
https://i.imgur.com/d8AZb4I.png
feel free to ask what anything means, or double check my figures and reveal that I made stupid errors