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by xyzzyz 1415 days ago
The rise in sea levels is extremely slow at human lifetime scale. We are looking at less than 1 meter (just over 3 feet) by year 2100 in the worst case scenario analyses by IPCC. This is not nearly enough to make Gibraltar power plant practical, as it is on the order of magnitude of existing difference between high and low tide.