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China's Largest Solar Farm Is Quietly Changing The Desert Around It (www.bgr.com)

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A solar farm in China is greening the land around it by reducing ground water evaporation, cutting down on wind, and adding water to the ground.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

We know, for example, that dust from the Sahara circulates the globe and brings nutrients to US soils.

Eh, the Amazon rainforest survived the African Humid Period, so it's probably fine.

More to the point, even if this thing is big compared to the average solar farm, it's still small compared to the scale of geoengineering. For example, enough solar panels to power the entire US would only cover a small fraction of the Chihuahuan Desert:

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