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and technologies for desert revegetation. It is claimed that these technologies together will create a sustainable and profitable source of energy, food, vegetation and water. The scale of the proposed project is such that very large quantities of seawater would be evaporated. By using locations
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Not all reports on the project are optimistic. Hydroponics projects globally tend to be overly optimistic but there are downsides to producing expensive crops in a population that cannot afford to buy them.
100:. The results were better than expected. The results have guided next steps, namely a test and demonstration center providing the first commercial-scale of the full Sahara Forest Project value chain. 481: 144:
On 22 June 2014, the Sahara Forest Project signed an agreement with the Norwegian Embassy in Amman for establishing a Sahara Forest Project Launch Station and related activities in
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The proposed technology combines saltwater-cooled greenhouses with solar power technologies, either directly using
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and officially opened on 16 December 2012 by the then Heir Apparent Sheikh
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Sahara Forest Project's first pilot facility was built in
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Joakim Hauge

renewable energy
re-vegetating areas of uninhabited desert
Bellona Foundation
photovoltaic
concentrated solar power
sea level
Qatar
Jordan
Tunisia
Qatar
Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani
Jordan
Aqaba
Al Baydha Project
Sahara
Sundrop Farms
Wadi Rum Consultancy
"Seawater greenhouses to bring life to the desert"
"Fourth World Conference on the Future of Science "Food and Water for Life" - Venice, September 24-27, 2008"
the original
"Greenhouse-Power Plant Hybrid Set to Make Jordan's Desert Bloom"
Bibcode
2011Sci...331..136C
doi
10.1126/science.331.6014.136
PMID
21233357

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