hoergen3d ago

Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle of the desert

#Erneuerbare #Renewable #GoodNews
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The article published in Science has detailed how massive solar arrays in the Sahara Desert have started to trigger increased rainfall and vegetation growth.

They drastically lower the temperature around the sand that they sit on, effectively “greening” the desert. As the warm air around the panels has nowhere else to go but up, they naturally form massive rainclouds in a part of the world known for its dryness.

Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds and thriving oases in the middle of the desert

A recent study has found an unexpected benefit from the undisputed king of the renewable energy sector as solar panels are creating rain clouds in the desert.

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Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻3d ago
@hoergen Yeah but... Do we want this? The climate catastrophe gives us more wind and rain or extra drought... and again we choose to alter the Sahara climate causing winds and rainstorms and stuff...
Is that truly the way ahead?
Show threadSeth G.
@apenkop @hoergen Maybe it's incentive to do more of this in the places with declining habitats instead of those naturally devoid of one.
Apr 12 at 5:24pmWeb
Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻3d ago
@secbox @hoergen
Okay, I like that. But the reason why I asked is not that I would know better than others (because I don't) but that I want us to keep thinking, reasoning, calculating if one positive choice isn't gonna make deplorable situations elsewhere worse. Another question: would revitalizing and replanting arid regions really be good regardless of the effects of climate change elsewhere?
Could we make the Sahara a lush forest and still be able to repair the North Atlantic Gyre?
Show threadLicho3d ago

@apenkop i think the people living there are desperately trying to stop the expansion of the Sahara desert, the project of the Great Green Wall of Africa is there to stop the change. If they can both get the energy and stop the desertification, that's a huge win

@secbox @hoergen

Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻3d ago

@licho @secbox @hoergen
I think we must stand together to fight western expansionist movements like those of the USA from interfering with local African initiatives (Gadaffi in his days) to regreen their countries.

It comes to my mind that for decades now, American interference anywhere on the planet (South America, Korea, Vietnam, Middle East, Middle East and Middle East) was never to protect those regions, but to destabilize them for USA's profit.

Show threadLicho3d ago

@apenkop on a more optimistic note, have you seen the series documenting the Great Green Wall of Africa by Andrew Millison?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbBdIG--b58

@secbox @hoergen

Inside Africa's Food Forest Mega-Project

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys with the UN World Food Programme to the country of Niger in the African Sahel to see an innovative land reco...

YouTube
Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻3d ago
@licho @secbox @hoergen
No I haven’t seen it. I’m gonna watch this tonight!
Show threadAaron 🖖2d ago
@licho @apenkop @secbox @hoergen Incredible! I hadn’t heard of this. Watching now. 🙂
Show threadErik2d ago
@licho @apenkop @secbox @hoergen yeah this stuff is truly hopeful
Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻2d ago
@licho @secbox @hoergen
I watched it and I really love it. So much more to say about this. How I'd love the local population to benefit from this, to gain awareness of their own worth, take control, but also: how to keep local or regional militant groups out of the equation. And how to keep global powers like US, China, Russia out of the equation for whereever there is a profit, those global powers want to own it.
Show threadStephen Beitzel2d ago

@secbox “…naturally devoid of one.” Hm. You know that the outline of the Sahara has changed radically over time, right? And that it has changed dramatically even over the relatively short period of time for which we have written records? And that *some* of that change may be attributable to human intervention?

So, are you asserting that you know what it *ought* to look like? That there is some One True State of the planet from which any deviance should be shunned and toward which all effort should be bent? And you know what effect any given action will have?

Show threadSeth G.2d ago
@pirateguillermo Nope. I'm just saying that humanity should focus on fixing what it knows it has damaged in the environment instead of trying to guide the course of nature.