Developing Opportunities for Seawater Greenhouse in South Africa

这项研究将评估在南非和纳米比亚干旱海岸线沿着应用海水温室过程的潜力。利用该地区的气候数据，我们将模拟这种方法如何发挥作用，冷却和净化气候，并产生新的淡水资源用于灌溉。该地区的农业目前处于边缘地位，风险很大，因为蒸发量是降水量的数倍。成功的实施将取决于团队合作，结合当地的学术、商业和政治利益，建立一个拥有所需技能、支持、专门知识和资源的实体，以开发和实施一个成功的项目，从而扩大商业规模。其中许多已经被确定，但也有差距，这些我们将寻求填补。我们还将调查交叉研究，开发和实施的既定框架，如牛顿和农业技术催化剂计划。

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.