Can We Terraform the Sahara to Stop Climate Change?
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Hand-picked by a BrighterTube curator · found via HackerTube (Karpathy's dataset of videos Hacker News recommends · 82% confidenceA numbers-based engineering assessment that weighs the downsides rather than hyping the idea.
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Real Engineering works through whether planting the Sahara could absorb meaningful carbon, covering water, albedo and climate side effects.
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