Qatars Ambitious Plan to Turn the Desert Green youtu.be/9Eg_YlI7l4E Qatar in many ways is ground zero for a lot of the challenges were going to see in the century ahead, argues US ex-pat Jonathan Smith, from the Qatar National Food Program. Soaring temperatures, swelling populations and minimal rainfall plague the otherwise booming nation. Now its leaders are pushing ambitious experiments like the Sahara Forest Project, transforming seawater and sunlight into fresh water, vegetables, electricity, biofuel and animal feed. The techniques were developing here can be applied in many regions in the world, the project scientists insist.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:20:50 +0000
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