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They could do even better than that: they could plant trees. They could build natural gas power plants that would provide the electricity to desalinate water an

They could do even better than that: they could plant trees. They could build natural gas power plants that would provide the electricity to desalinate water and pump it to the desert, and create artificial oases. I didn't run the numbers, but I'm quite sure that would be carbon negative by a wide margin. This way they continue doing what they know best (extract fossil fuels from the ground) and also beautify their landscape, and help humanity, and maybe even collect some carbon credits from the rest of the world.

alephnerd 3y ago
> build natural gas power plants that would provide the electricity to desalinate water They are (with solar). Look at the Al Khafji Plant in Saudi's Vision 2030 [0] It takes time to build this stuff. The old guard was much more pro-oil and status quo than MBS, and he only finished purging them by 2018-19. It'll take a decade for their projects to start popping up. [0] - https://www.vision2030.gov.sa/en/projects/alkhafji/ https://www.vision2030.gov.sa/en/projects/alkhafji/
goodSteveramos 3y ago
That is probably the worst and most carbon intensive way to plant some trees ever