Disregarding terrorists and so on, can we do anything practical with African deserts? They are fucking yuge.
Disregarding terrorists and so on, can we do anything practical with African deserts? They are fucking yuge
Liam Cox
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Nolan Murphy
Leave it to their rightful owners, imperialist scum.
Caleb Williams
Telescopes?
Landon Harris
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STOP RIGHT THERE
If we were to use that land, be it by buying it or by taking it, that would be fucking racist. Let the native people work their own land. Or what, do you think they can't? You fucking racist asshole go kill yourself.
John Fisher
Try leaving it alone
Jack Edwards
There was that crazy plan to build solar power generators out there, I think a few billion was allocated but then Libya went to shit and Mali and everywhere else was overrun by derkas beheading so plan is on hold. (unless the derkas were part of the plan.. idk into geopolitics) en.wikipedia.org
Benjamin Clark
XDD
Charles Rodriguez
Jason Campbell
I read wind might have been a better choice.
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Gavin Green
they are practical
they are very important for world climate
stop being retarded
Joshua Jones
Sahara does a very practical thing on its own. It fertilizes the Amazonian forest.
Angel Richardson
They are not adjacent.
Liam Hughes
Chad, Algeria, and Mauritania do more than W. Sahara does.
Jacob Moore
HOL UP
Jayden Long
Make the desert bigger and more barren to kill all the humans there.
Lucas Phillips
They contribute a ton of iron to the ocean, which is required for photosynthesis and hence oxygen in our atmosphere.
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Ryder Hall
So then what happens to the Amazon during wet Sahara periods?
Daniel Phillips
Is there a good book that covers the climatic history of the world for a non-expert (perhaps on a university undergraduate level)?
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I am particularly interested in environmental degradation through human action over time.
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Jack Campbell
Biologically engineer worms to enormous size and give the desert to them.
Evan Allen
Cover them in solar panels and wind turbines.
Jacob Scott
Sandcastles
Ian Williams
Massive irrigation
Juan Cox
morocco did this, and is planning to add more
Ethan Baker
jidf pls go
Cameron Watson
Maybe use large covered pools to grow algae. Algae can be easily modified to produce various oils.
The pools could be filled with simple saline, however they would need to somehow capture the water that evaporates off during the day. Also they would need to be deep, so as to store thermal energy during the day and dump it overnight.
I think that the deserts' constant sunshine is a huge asset, but the only cheap way to monetise it is with biological means. Solar panels are too expensive and transmission costs for electricity too much.
Using the solar energy to power a furnace is a great idea, but there's not much of a decent workforce in North Africa.
Luke Morales
I wonder if there is a way to block all frequencies of light except those which help plants grow. It would help with excessive heat and evaporation.
Juan Phillips
YOU SAYIN
David Clark
>Consume the water that remains.
Brilliant.