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The Sahara Forest Project has the potential to solve food and sweet water scarcity in a desert area like the Sahara.
To be able to solve that it needs access to CO2; lots of sunlight and sea water.
It could take the CO2 out of the sky and make sweet water from seawater - produced with the help of concentrated solar energy to desalinated the sea water - and sunlight to be able to grow the food crop.
The whole complex of the Sahara Forest Project is based on existing sustainable energy and agricultural techniques to grow a food crop, to produce energy and to produce drinking water - and that in an extreme dry, very hot and sunny area like the Sahara with no sweet water resources, but sea water access only.
The next video - English spoken - explains it all in more detail with the help of a pilot project. The first fully operational Sahara Forest Project Pilot Plant has been built in Qatar. It has certainly a potential to grow into big projects for many more desert regions, solving energy, food and drink related problems.
Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
Sahara Forest Project screen capture by Ak
( Please, click on it to see the video (English spoken) in a new window ).
A lot more information on The Sahara Forest Project can be found at: http://saharaforestproject.com/concept.html
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