Hah. Not at all! If it sounds like that, I've misrepresented myself - I agree with you here, and the Strait is the perfect place to do it, using something like this: https://www.orkney.com/news/orbital-grid
> But - purely as an exercise in trying to answer hilariously daft questions - how much would it cost to lower the level of the sea?
Never answered?
> But this is far from the worst thing about Atlantropa.
> It’s alarming to look back just a century and realise just how deeply baked and widely-disseminated these kinds of racist assumptions were in Europe.
> It’s proper shivers-down-the-spine stuff.
> Atlantropa may have been wildly unfeasible for countless reasons, a perfect turducken of Nopes.
Which reasons?
I got to the end of the post and was still waiting for content...
The article notes that even just the dam in the Gibraltar Strait (ignoring the others) would have required more concrete than existed in the entire world at the time. I think that single reason is enough.
