Friday, January 3, 2014

Venice Shall Rise Again: Engineered Uplift of Venice Through Seawater Injection (Elsevier Insights)

Venice Shall Rise Again: Engineered Uplift of Venice Through Seawater Injection (Elsevier Insights)

The city of Venice, Italy, has been subjected to periodic flooding, or acqua alta, for centuries. Venice Shall Rise Again presents a unique proposition to halt this flooding. Based on years of work and experiment, experts Gambolati and Teatini describe an innovative yet technologically simple, economically inexpensive, and environmentally friendly project to raise Venice by 25-30 cm over ten years by injecting seawater into 650-1000 m deep geological formations. This project would be conducted u







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