The Taklamakan Desert has a name that translates, roughly and ominously, to “The Place of No Return.” For centuries, this 130,000-square-mile expanse in western China was exactly that — a furnace of ...
China's ambitious desert project aims to reshape global energy production. The video highlights the Solar Star Plant in Kern County, California, the largest solar power facility in the United States, ...
A technical discussion among Earth science specialists frames the central question bluntly as “Will cost exceed benefit,” arguing that any realistic assessment of pumping ocean water into desert areas ...