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Deserts are abandunt- in fact they are the default ecology on all planets. https://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/pdf/229_RSER_WildLife_2011.pdf https://www.bnl.gov/pv/f
by addHocker 9y ago
Deserts are abandunt- in fact they are the default ecology on all planets.
https://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/pdf/229_RSER_WildLife_2011.pdf https://www.bnl.gov/pv/files/pdf/229_RSER_WildLife_2011.pdf
If solar panels could be modified to create substained microclimates below that would be awesome. After all, there is still enough straylight getting below, to allow for a average forrestplant to exist.
- ccozan 9y agoSpeaking of which, they also could be used to condense the (low) air humidity and channel it into the ground, so the possibility to create a micro ecology system is even more higher. Water immediately attracts life.
- addHocker 9y agoThere was a small project where somebody used a hygroscopic substance (Silicagel) to collect water in the atmosphere in the desert and freed it with concentrated sunlight, and then condensed it. http://perkscience.com/harvest-water-desert-air/ http://perkscience.com/harvest-water-desert-air/