Plan B: Flood the Desert

The idea is “risky, unproven, even unlikely to work,” according […]

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Climate State

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November 16, 2018

The idea is “risky, unproven, even unlikely to work,” according to Y Combinator. But if it did work, it could slow climate change. By James Rainey. Imagine flooding a desert half the size of the Sahara. Using 238 trillion gallons of desalinated ocean water to do the job. Creating millions of 1-acre-square micro-reservoirs to grow enough algae to gobble up all of Earth’s climate-changing carbon dioxide. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/would-flooding-deserts-help-stop-global-warming-n934551

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