Plan B: Flood the Desert

2018, Africa, China, Climate Change, Climate Engineering, CO2 Sequestration, Emissions Reduction, Project, Solutions, USALeave a comment

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…