Developing Opportunities for Seawater Greenhouse in South Africa

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The study will assess the potential for application of the Seawater Greenhouse process along the aridcoasline of South Africa and Namibia. Using climate data from the region, we will model how the approachwill perform, cooling and humidifying the climate and generating a new source of fresh water forirrigation. Agriculture in the region is currently marginal and risky, as evaporation exceeds precipitationseveral-fold.Successful implementation will result from teamwork, combining academic, commercial and polititicalinterests locally, to establish an entity with the required skills, support, know-how and resources todevelop and implement a successful project that leads to commercial scale-up. Many of these have alreadybeen identified, but so too have gaps, and these we will seek to fill.We will also investigate established frameworks for cross cutting research, development andimplementation, such as the Newton and Agri-tech Catalyst programs.