i think his point is that the aquifers are natural filters, and that rising watertables from ocean flooding would be filtered through them. this is partially true, but it would filter slowly, and you would still end up with salty marshland, likely. On 1/29/08, Jed Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lawrence de Bivort wrote: > > >I understand there are considerable sweet water aquifers under large > >portions of the Sahara. > > There are aquifers, but they are being rapidly depleted and > destroyed. There is no chance they can be used to reconvert the > man-made parts of the desert back into verdant land. That can only be > done with desalinization using energy sources other than fossil fuel. > Conventional sources such as fission or solar thermal would work, but > cold fusion would be orders of magnitude cheaper. > > - Jed > >
-- That which yields isn't always weak.
