LoL clearly a con. If project is a money pit, that will never meet commercial production. Congrats Jordan for persuading the Gullible, kind hearted, idots into spending money on something that will never achieve any meaningful goal. If this project was actually economically viable a for PROFIT organization would be doing it.

they are going to have to figure out how to deal with all the salt and crap that comes out of the seawater when you evaporate it. I can see that clogging everything up VERY quickly.
Also it doesn\'t mention how the water vapour is \"condensed\". This is non-trivial when ambient temp is like 50C. Could use a heat pump to transfer the heat from the vapour into some relatively cool part of the hot water cycle in the solar generation plant.

sounds good, looking forward to it

This looks really fantastic!

Just release copious amounts of CO² in the local area and it\'ll green up on it\'s own. :-)

So what happens to all the dissolved solids that are left behind?

Or, they could use the desalination systems that trunzwater makes to get fresh water from any type of water including seawater and it is powered by solar panels.

While I understand Mr. Manitons complaints, the science of terraforming has to start somewhere..... Jordan is starting from the unfortunate place of having 3000 years of environmental damage. The system may be a money pit, but if they work out how to change semi-desert into cultivatable lands ( with plants that absorb the sunlight and produce food, which would bring down the ambient temperature) they would be in effect creating an economy. I know Israel has been very big in plating orange trees. Or any other tree that will shade and produce food. My main concern with this project is they they do not know what they are doing. Not that they are incompetent, but the bulk of farming science has been focused on producing as many bushels of grain per acre. This project is about rescuing land and keeping it functional over the long haul and not giving in to short term profit.

Neat!

They should bio-engineer the plants to tolerate the salt, instead of wasting all that effort trying to get rid of it.

The tides are probably good enough to power pumps to deliver the seawater too - no need for solar and the massive waste & pollution all that infrastructure creates.

Nothing is a \"money pit\". People need jobs. That\'s how our world works.

Great project. As Dennis says, this project can be money pit but terraforming has to start somewhere... If they rescue the land and make it habitable / cultivable they achieve a lot of value. Must not be necessarily capitalist money slave driving value...at least not at first. Not everything needs to be one dimensional profit geared enterprise. Over exploitation has had produced the desert in the first place. Good luck.