Bushnell, D.M. Halophytes/Saline Water/Deserts/Wastelands Nexus as a Scalable Climate Mitigation including Freshwater Impacts. Water2024, 16, 373.
Bushnell, D.M. Halophytes/Saline Water/Deserts/Wastelands Nexus as a Scalable Climate Mitigation including Freshwater Impacts. Water 2024, 16, 373.
Bushnell, D.M. Halophytes/Saline Water/Deserts/Wastelands Nexus as a Scalable Climate Mitigation including Freshwater Impacts. Water2024, 16, 373.
Bushnell, D.M. Halophytes/Saline Water/Deserts/Wastelands Nexus as a Scalable Climate Mitigation including Freshwater Impacts. Water 2024, 16, 373.
Abstract
Climate change is rapidly exacerbating and adding to major-to-existential issues associated with fresh water availability and utilization. The massive thus far untapped saline/salt water - oceans/wastelands/deserts – Halophytes resources nexus can, at scale and profitably provide major climate change mitigation and greatly alleviate most extant fresh water issues. Approaches include ocean fertilization and saline/seawater agriculture on deserts and wastelands to sequester massive amounts of CO2 and methane and for food, freeing up the some 70% of the fresh water now utilized by current agriculture for direct human use. Also enables production of huge amounts of Bio/SAF fuels and bio mass based chemical feed stock employing the massive capacity of cheap saline/ seawater and cheap deserts, wastelands. Overall saline/ seawater can, uniquely, at the scale of the climate and fresh water issues, without desalinization, profitably, utilizing extant technologies and the some 44% of the land that is deserts/ wastelands, and the 97% of the water that is saline/ seawater rapidly, seriously, address land, fresh water, food, energy and climate.
Keywords
Halophytes; Seawater Agriculture; CO2 Sequestration; Climate Mitigation; Droughts
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Other
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