Sahara Forest Project Aims to Use Algae, Renewable Technologies to Bloom Deserts

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January 28, 2013

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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …The metrics? A commercial scale project of 4,000 hectares would supply enough power for the project and export 325GWh a year in addition to 7,500 tonnes of algae oil, and hundreds of thousands of tonnes of food and fodder crops.

…Organisms that waste resources and energy have very low chances for success. The direction that nature points technology towards is clear — technological systems where the waste product from one technology is used as resource for another. This integrated technological system allows for harvesting beneficial synergies and increased efficiencies of the individual technologies.

… The project has seven distinct facilities including concentrated solar power (CSP), saltwater-cooled greenhouses, outside vegetation and evaporative hedges, photovoltaic solar power, salt production, halophytes and algae production. READ MORE and MORE (Sahara Forest)

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