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Lets assume in the near future global warming has covered 90% of Earth's surface with water. What's a human to do? Simple! Solve the problem with more technology. Build the ultimate water project. Build a gigantic water tank that will hold the world's ocean to bring the water level down to pre-global warming days.

What do you think? Is this a far fetched idea or do you think people are crazy enough to attempt it? It seems humans like to use technology to solve problems that were caused by the missuse of technology.

Eh.. where are you going to put this tank?

There is not enough ice to raise waterlevels enough to submerge 60% of the land. I belive that water raise is about 20 feet max.

Not enough "ice" to raise the ocean levels by that much...but you forgot about "thermal expansion" that could cover most of the world (if the oceans heat up enough)

ok wow.....

my brain almost exploded from reading that.

And what would we build this giant tank with?

I say we build a ladder to the moon then we can all live happily on the moon with the moon people!

Ebyss wrote:Eh.. where are you going to put this tank?

Prefureably some place were there're no hurricanes or earthquakes.

The cheapest way to trap water is to build an enclosed wall with no roof. Actually it's been done many times abiet on a much smaller scale. Levees come to mind. Imagine a levee the height of hoover dam encircling the continent of Antartica. That should do the trick.

Or maybe we could build a gigantic freezer in Antartica to keep the ice frozen. But I'm guessing we'd rack up a pretty high electricty bill doing that so I think the water levee idea is better.