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For reference, there’s about 500 trillion square meters of land area on the planet; so even if trees are crowded together one per square meter, this is talking about a 500th of that.

But perhaps we can find a way to make the Sahara into a forest? That’s about what it would take.



> But perhaps we can find a way to make the Sahara into a forest? That’s about what it would take.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19557497


My go-to model that might work is:

- Plant heliostat molten salt reactors in desert coastal areas (the concentrated solar kind)

- Use generated heat to desalinate water

- Use desalinated water to provide irrigation

- Plant (potentially GMO'ed) bootstrapping organisms to create a soil (greening)

- Plant trees

- Rinse repeat.




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