TECHNOLOGIES
During the last 3.7 billion years, numerous species has flourished and vanished. Species which wasted energy, water or food and species that could not find their niche in the ecosystem have lost to those more efficient and adaptive. The selective forces of nature have ruthlessly favoured efficient and flexible principles and designs. This process presents us with an unparalleled amount of time-tested designs.
The Sahara Forest Project aims to make available a new source of fresh water, food and renewable energy in hot, arid regions. This is achieved by the creation of a highly synergetic system with some of the most promising environmental technologies available.
The Sahara Forest Project have the potential to provide a restorative effect of returning areas of desert to forested land and sequestering substantial quantities of atmospheric carbon in new plant growth and reactivated soils. The project incorporates Concentrated Solar Power, Seawater Greenhouses for growth of traditional crops as well as promising new sources of biomass such as algae and halophytes.
Principles and designs from nature have been incorporated into the architecture, the engineering and the creation of a synergetic technological system. Simplicity has been favoured over complexity, while at the same time pursuing efficiency and flexibility.
The Sahara Forest Project is meant to be continuously evolving and adapting, incorporating new technologies and knowledge.