Australia has large untapped reserves of lands that could be used for agriculture if we solve the water issue. Right now, we are using a small proportion of Australia's lands for growing stuff, because our continent experiences extremely variable rainfall. How can we make Australia the food bowl of Asia and solve the food/water security issue?
Is it possible to terraform Australia with technologies being developed today?
Blake Cooper
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Xavier Gray
If we can unlock lands the size of France, Germany and Britain combined for farming , we could probably solve world hunger.
Dylan Roberts
Pretty sure your government would just give all the food to the abbos.
Cameron Russell
In the next 50 years, we'd have cheap automated desalination plants with graphene membranes, that promises to cut energy usage by 99 percent. Coupled with hundreds of millions of Cheap perovskite solar panels, that would make energy practically free, and you could theoretically supplement rainfall with desalinated water and use the increase in productive agricultural lands to pay for the desalination plant. You could have hundreds of carbon neutral desalination plants dotted around the coasts of Australia, supplying water to inland farms. New generations of fertilisers would help too. Israel has shown that we can use desalination to green deserts, with even outdated desalination technologies. They grow their own food.
Chase Gutierrez
Deserts have more issues than just not having enough water
Luis Collins
I'm not interested in Terra forming deserts but grasslands
Lincoln Hernandez
If grass can grow there how come whatever plant u wanna grow there cant
Mason Foster
The native grasses in Australia evolved to survive harsh conditions. They're very efficient at using water/moisture in the air. Eurasian crops like Barley wouldn't survive in these places. The soil is shit too.
Ryan Smith
Recently, a few farmers have been using aquifers to regenerate grasslands into proper farming lands, so I think it's possible. Although these ground water sources are a few years away from being completely exhausted.
Elijah Stewart
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