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Just imagine the machinery you could power beneath the dessert, if you store the heat of the day.. Imagine for example salt water pits near the coast, where the
by 21asdffdsa12 11mo ago
Just imagine the machinery you could power beneath the dessert, if you store the heat of the day.. Imagine for example salt water pits near the coast, where the heat creates fresh water mist, that rises and distills int he cold desert nights. To then be pumped onwards with sundriven steampumps, to places where the water is needed. No moving parts, just light redirecting glasfiber and infrastructure created beneath the sands creating geysers of fresh water miles away.
- loloquwowndueo 11mo agoAwesome! Then imagine people wearing full-body solar-powered suits that capture and recycle body moisture and fluids, purify them and store them in a tank for later use. Would be fantastic!
- fakedang 11mo agor/UnexpectedDune
- paddleon 11mo agoJust imagine the incalculable wealth if you could store the energy of the sun in, say, plants, which would release the fresh mist during the night, build the health of the soil, and enable mobile life forms to carry the energy around to move it to other locations. North Africa was the breadbasket of Rome, filled with life and water. Then we turned it into a desert.
- ch4s3 11mo agoThe fertile zone around the Nile was Rome’s bread basket, not the modern desert. It’s still a major agricultural area.
- fakedang 11mo agoRome's breadbasket was more than the Nile. Tunisia and parts of modern Algeria were also extremely green even during the late Roman period
- ch4s3 11mo agoAlgeria probably has more land under cultivation now than in antiquity.
- IAmBroom 11mo ago"Carthago delenda est"... Although apparently the "sewing with salt" was hyperbole, Northern Africa was far more fertile then.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoCute, but there are many times in my life when I want greater power density than I can find in a crop field - or more readily converted potential energy. An ear of corn won't run my flashlight.