IN LIBYAN DESERT
DISCOVERY OF " VAST DEPRESSION *•■■■' UNUSUAL HYDRO-ELEC-TRIC PROJECT ■ (Australian Press Association.) . Cairo, May 13. A British officer in the wartime operations against the Senusst reported the discovery of a vast deep depression in the Libyan desert to the west of the Nile. After the war an examination was made .and confirms u fact that in the at present unimiabitable and untraversible desert. , -ou miles from Cairo, there is a huge dq as big as half inhabited Egypt, dropping to 300- feet below the Mediterranean. The Government is considering one Of the world’s most unusual hydro-electric schemes, which consists in admitting the waters of the Med*terranean to the depression through SO miles of conduits and tl-ereby generating at a nominal cost all the e*ec-t-icitv needed for light ;uul power in the whole of Egypt- The scheme is estimated to- cost fifteen millions StCTlia®.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 191, 15 May 1928, Page 9
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144IN LIBYAN DESERT Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 191, 15 May 1928, Page 9
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