Oct 07
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Tags: agriculture, desert, Environment
Sep 04
· Green energy glasshouses may transform arid areas
· Fresh water will end need to dig wells, say architects
The Sahara forest project will use seawater and solar power to grow food in greenhouses across the desert. Photograph: Exploration Architecture
Vast greenhouses that use sea water for crop cultivation could be combined with solar power plants to provide food, fresh water and clean energy in deserts, under an ambitious proposal from a team of architects and engineers.
The Sahara Forest Project, which is already running demonstration plants in Tenerife, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, envisages huge greenhouses with concentrated solar power (CSP), a technology that uses mirrors to focus the sun’s rays, creating steam to drive turbines to generate electricity.
The installations would turn deserts into lush patches of vegetation, according to its designers, and do away with the need to dig wells for fresh water, an activity that has depleted aquifers across the world.
Tags: desert, electricity, Environment, Government, Middle East, Oman, Sahara Forest Project, Solar Energy, Solar Power, Technology, Tenerife, United Arab Emirates, water
Apr 06
See Maude Barlow’s latest book:
Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water
Tags: Battle, Blue Covenant, climate change, crisis, desert, desertification, earth changes, global, Global Warming, Right, The Corporation, the man who fell to earth, water
