In 1912, engineers saw a hidden power source beneath Egypt’s desert. More than a century later, the plan is now abandoned

For more than a century, a vast empty basin in Egypt’s Western Desert was considered the site of one of the world’s most unusual engineering proposals. The Qattara Depression, a sunken stretch of land below sea level, was imagined as a place where seawater from the Mediterranean could be used to generate electricity.

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