The Dead Sea, Death Valley, and various other places are below sea level and no more than a few hundred miles from the ocean. Would it work to build very large pipelines from the ocean to these places and then generate hydroelectric power from the water flowing from the ocean to these places? Obviously, we would have to regulate the rate of water flow to avoid flooding the destination to too great a depth, but if we balanced the water flow rate with the rate of evaporation at the destination, then the amount of water there would not increase. Death Valley seems like a particular good location for this, because it is very hot, so the water would evaporate quickly, and it is almost completely unpopulated, so evacuating the area that would have to be flooded should be much simpler than for hydroelectric projects in more densely populated areas.
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The Jordan River has been flowing into the Dead Sea since Bibical times. The water level in the Dead Sea has not equalized with the ocean. It really does all evaporate. The water level in the Dead Sea is currently decreasing, because the evaporation is faster than the flow rate. The plan is to keep the flow rate low enough so that it remains below the evaporation rate.
