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Yes, it could reduce sea level rise, but it would be no good for irrigation. Many deserts, like the Aral Sea and Death Valley, are below sea level. This means you would not need to use energy to pump the water, but could use the siphon principle. Some people say that even if you filled all these low-lying deserts with sea water, it would not do much to lower ...
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This is no an answer per se, just a back-of-the-envelope calculation for fun.
Lifting 1 kg (one litre) of water up a height of 1 meter uses 9.8 (let's say 10) joules of energy.
Let's say you want to lower the sea level by 1 meter. You need to pump 3.6e17 litres (3.6e14 m2 of ocean area = 3.6e14 m3 to pump * 1000 for litre conversion).
Let's say you want ...
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