> It makes very conservative assumptions Uh huh. Good to know this guy has it all figured out. Edit: trying to find the most absurd claim in this. I think it

> It makes very conservative assumptions Uh huh. Good to know this guy has it all figured out. Edit: trying to find the most absurd claim in this. I think it has to be the desalinization idea. That we can “just” scale up desalinization at existing marginal costs to 3 TRILLION cubic meters of water. The entire world currently desalinizes less than a billion each year. So that’s at least a 300x increase in water production! And how do we provide the energy to do this? The article hand waves it off as “solar power”. Yeah sure that would be great. Forget the cost of infrastructure or the transportation or the space for the solar power or whatever Trees are great. By all means, plant trees. But don’t go thinking this poorly reasoned back of the envelope math is going to help.