Sahara Desert Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:37:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Tunisian Solar Power Plant to Help Europe Forget About Fossils https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tunisian-solar-power-plant-help-europe-forget-fossils-20141030/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tunisian-solar-power-plant-help-europe-forget-fossils-20141030/#respond Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:37:40 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49944 Renewable energy in Europe might be receiving a new huge boost from the Tunisian Sahara desert. A major local company is currently looking into constructing a large solar power plant, which is expected to generate the amount of power Europe needs in order to completely forget about fossils. If there is one thing that Sahara desert can […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/tunisian-solar-power-plant-help-europe-forget-fossils-20141030/feed/ 0 49944 Converting Deserts Into Forests Would Stop Global Warming https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sahara-green-stop-global-warming-20090917/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sahara-green-stop-global-warming-20090917/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:02:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4458 Researcher Leonard Ornstein has come up with a simple plan to stop global warming. He proposes that turning Sahara and the Australian outback into vast, shady forests, could draw down about 8 billion tons of carbon a year, nearly as much as people emit from burning forests and fossil fuels today.

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