Gibraltar Passthrough Intervention

A complex and groundbreaking wizardry designed by the hydromage and Planetary wizard Angelina Pellegrino. The Passthrough was designed to augment the exchange of sea water between the Mediterranean and Atlantic Oceans through the Straits of Gibraltar.

During the early industrial-revolution period, the waters of the eastern Mediterranean were already starting to have difficulty purging themselves of human-sourced pollution and contaminants due to a transient spike in Gulf Stream temperatures and a disruption of the interaction between the Med's thermohaline layer and the colder, less saline Atlantic waters. Pellegrino's wizardry was designed to boost large sections of the thermohaline layer up to levels where the warmer, saltier water could more easily flow out into the Atlantic over the Camarinal Sill in the straits.

The wizardry itself involves the temporary construction of double or triple forcefield tubes through which the water is forced. Venturi structures constructed inside the tubes are energized by a controlled inflow of hydrogen and oxygen gases cracked out of the water coming in contact with the forcefields. The pressure differential produced by the compressed gases boosts the water up the tubes, which ensure that the water proceeds in the desired direction and at the proper speed. The Passthrough spell itself is remarkable for how efficiently it uses the wizard's energy to move huge amounts of water with the minimum power outlay. (AWOM)

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