The Professor had, among others, identified a location on the Zambezi River where the Zambezi and Chobe rivers meet +-40km upriver from the Victoria Falls, I assume close to the newly built Kazungula Bridge?
In essence the suggestion was that by the construction a 14 meter high, controllable weir, in times of flooding the river would be able to flow along the ancient route, filling Lake Liambezi, and pushing back to Maun and back via the Boteti river ultimately filling the Makgadikgadi pans. This would also mitigate he flooding downstream in Mozambique.
Building a 14m high Weir 1km wide using human and animal labour was an immense challenge 120 years ago. With modern earthmoving equipment such a task would be like building a "big farm dam" today!
My question and thinking - this would refill the MASSIVE "evaporation pans" as they were centuries ago, which would in turn raise the rainfall in especially the winter months in much of the Northern Cape, and especially Botswana moving over to Limpopo province, and ultimately raise the Average Rainfall throughout the entire Southern Africa. The thinking is that Lake Malawi and some of the lakes further north have large cloud formations late afternoons?
I assume in the 1900's many studies were done on energy rather than Water supply, with a considerably lower world populations at that time and sufficient water per capita. Thus the building of the Cahora Basa dam and Lake Kariba for Hydro Electricity
Today Climate change and its consequences are some of the biggest challenges facing Humanity, with water scarcity being the big factor in Sub-Sahara Africa.
By Ultimately raising the Rainfall in the entire Southern Africa, through the managed and controlled filling and utilization of the Natural 30 000 - 60 000 square km of evaporation pans more regularly, will this not lower the extreme temperatures (day and night temperatures due to water absorbing much of the daytime heat and releasing it during the night) and drought patterns Southern Africa has experienced, and by all predictions are bound to worsen and could become more extreme? In effect, creating a second Okavango Delta, but considerably bigger - large parts of Chobe.
A study of such a magnitude will need large amounts of research in multidisciplinary sciences, from Archaeology to Agriculture to Economics, and a much broader field of expertise - the biggest being Politics!
Could such a mammoth project not be but one small answer to a much bigger Climate Change challenge facing the Earth? (and ultimately send a bit of rain to my little piece of land in the Waterberg in the long dry winter months when we receive those dry West Winds - and fires become a serious hazard - simply by adding a bit of moisture from the vast pans Botswana are so blessed with!)
My mind has been going in circles as to the feasibility of such a mammoth, yet so cheap and easily implementable idea?
Any ideas?
你可以在这里读到一个稍微修改过的概念，通过水和雨的保留来减少海平面上升，通过额外的云反照率来冷却地球温度，可以是这样的:https://climate-protecion-hardware.webnode.page/english/
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