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Off the coast of Libya, install a series of nuclear reactors.
Don't tell anyone. This has to be done at night.
Across the straits of gibralter, install a hydroelectric dam. This may take a bit longer, you will need to distract the population with another game of thrones series.
Initially the tides,
then a later drop in water levels, will provided electric power. Drop underwater lines to the nuclear reactors to provide backup power for cooling and regulatory systems.
At each reactor, is a pump and a nozzle that can shoot water throughout the troposphere.The prevailing winds in this area are northeasterly; the winds will distribute the atomized spray and fish-based nutrients across the western sahara.
Once this runs for 25-50 years, turn it off, dismantle the nuclear reactors, and retire to the lush jungles of Tamdjert, letting the refilling of the Mediterranean keep your lights on at night.
Nuclear Desalination
https://world-nucle...r-desalination.aspx
A solution to every problem. [mylodon, Oct 19 2022]
Great Green Wall
https://www.greatgr...ut-great-green-wall
"The Great Green Wall is an African-led movement with an epic ambition to grow an 8,000km natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa. A decade in and roughly 15% underway [...]" [aniola, Oct 23 2022]
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//atomized spray and fish-based nutrients // ... and salt. |
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Good luck growing lush jungles in salt. |
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much easier to tow icebergs. and quite likely to be needed |
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If you were to dig all the sand out and take it away the water would just flow in naturally under gravity, no need for the spraying thing. |
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But where would you put it all? The sand. |
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I don't see why there is a problem where to put the sand. Think about it logically. A grain of sand is very tiny. If you go to the beach and come home with a grain of sand on your shoe and it falls off onto your carpet, it vanishes because it is so small. |
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Ah but that sand grain doesn’t vanish. After a protracted series of unlikely events, it ends up in your stomach where it gradually turns into a type of pearl over many years. Jeff Bezos collects these human stomach pearls and has a long corridor with hundreds of them mounted in brightly lit glass cases. |
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Don't tell me that, tell [whatrock], they were the one with the bee in their bonnet about what to do with individual grains of sand. |
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Anyway it strikes me that if there is such a demand for them from wealthy people the entire process (of digging all the sand out from the Sahara) could be cost-neutral or even turn a profit. |
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You may be interested in Las Gaviotas, Colombia. Read up on it or just check it out on a map. They reforested a patch of desert. |
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That was very interesting. Maybe terraforming does need a gentler hand then dumping a sea of water on sand. |
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Certainly the Salton Sea isn't the loveliest place. |
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