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@desertventures
Germany has spent $200 billion over the past two decades to promote cleaner sources of electricity. That enormous investment is now having an unexpected impact.
The negative prices in the electricity market, created by a surplus of electricity supply and a shortage in demand, accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable energy system in Germany.
Saving soils helps in saving humanity
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v5DbCbl08M)
A great example of what modern minimalist living can become: being rich by limiting waste.
The Farm of the Future Might Be Entirely Run by Robots on WIRED Video
Will this bring us closer to nature again or will it increase our alienation?
SOURCE is a solar-powered and self-contained device capable of harvesting up to 10 liters of clean drinking water per day from the air.
Yet another step on the way towards a future of decentralized and abundant water supply for everyone. The high price currently limits the system to use by eager early adopters in rich countries, but this is bound to change.
New technology in China turns desert into land rich with crops
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Crops like corn, tomatoes, sorghum and sunflowers are transforming more than 200 hectares of sand dunes into an oasis – all within six months. It’s all thanks to new technology developed by researchers at Chongqing Jiaotong University. They developed a paste made of a substance found in plant cell walls. When it’s added to sand, it’s able to retain water, nutrients and air. “The costs of artificial materials and machines for transforming sand into soil is lower compared with controlled environmental agriculture and reclamation,” Yang Qingguo, professor at Chongqing Jiaotong University said. The research team has big future plans. This fall, it hopes to transform an additional 200 hectares of desert – and possibly more than 13,000in the next few years. The method could be promising for China. In three years, the country hopes to reforest 50 percent of degraded desert land that can be treated. By 2030, the United Nations is aiming to reach zero growth of desert farmland around the world. China’s breakthrough experiment in converting sand to soil is promising for making land seemingly hostile to life, fertile ground.
Kim Flintoff’s insight:
China’s breakthrough experiment in converting sand to soil is promising for making land seemingly hostile to life, fertile ground.
Science is cool.
So that article doesn’t really say much of anything and it looks suspiciously like a content-stealer, so I googled around to try and find the original source. What tipped me off is that they’re so fucking vague about the paste. And it just reads sort of… oddly.
I found the original English language source, and it is from a Chinese media group that publishes in English. Here it is, and includes two videos.
Why this makes me squeamish: there’s an awful lot of praise for the Chinese government here (which is not surprising, since they are the ones funding this media source), and they still don’t explain the paste. There’s no link to scientific papers or anything.
I’m not saying it’s not legit, but it’s not the whole story. You’re not gonna be growing giant tomatoes out there without fertilizer at the very least, and in the video you can see irrigation lines, but they make it sound like they invented a magical paste that is the only thing needed to suddenly grow a shitton of plants.
Is adding organic matter and some water and nutrients to restart the ecosystem a good idea? Hell yes. But I wish they’d be more upfront about what they’re doing. More science, less propaganda please.
Sand to soil?
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A desert home interior
Tuwaiq Palace, Saudi Arabia by Frei Otto.
Wild desert architecture
A beautiful Riad/Hôtel in Morocco.
The perfect desert resting place.
Ait Benhaddou, Morocco.
Architecture adapted to the desert
If creating new nations in the world’s ocean is viable, why not in the world’s deserts!
An awesome short documentary on a village in India using permaculture type techniques such as swales and other water harvesting methods to restore the water table and bring the land to abundance in a desert environment.:
The Miracle Water Village
“As the world reels under the threat of unrelenting climate change, erratic monsoons and fast depleting groundwater reserves, The Miracle Water Village narrates the inspirational story of impoverished farming community in India that reversed its fortunes through its visionary model of water management.
Lying in one of the worst drought-prone regions of India, the village of Hiware Bazar battled many decades of sparse rain and failed crops. However, 20 years ago, the entire village came together to script a silent revolution by designing a rainwater-harvesting model that saved every drop of the scanty rain they received. Today, the village is literally an oasis in the middle of the desert, boasting of bumper harvests, dairy co-operatives, millionaire families and visionary farmers. Hiware Bazar still receives the scanty amount of rainfall it used to in the heart of its most trying years, but what has changed is the way it has managed its water and created a miracle with this most precious liquid resource!”
How simple measures can re-green barren land and make prosperous architecture possible
Desert agriculture in Saudi Arabia.
How not to do agriculture in the desert. Don’t try this at home.
Green in the desert
Can you grow edible plants and flowers in the desert? Absolutely. Despite the extreme heat and minimal rainfall, there are a number of edible plants and flowers that can be grown. Click here for more info.
