Sensational title.
On straw checkerboards laid across northwest China, a dark film spread over treated sand and stayed after seasonal dust storms. […] In trials near the Taklamakan Desert in Xinjiang in northwest China, CAS teams saw crusts stabilize sand within 10 to 16 months.
So they treated the sand with a microbial sludge and it did not blow away.
Later in the article …
Even in the best cases, that still meant waiting two to three years for a mature crust that resists disturbance.
It’s great that people are researching techniques to increase arable land, but this article is pretty trashy.
This is why I always skim the comments before a follow a link. Feels like two out of every three articles that catch my attention end up being intellectually dishonest clickbait.
Only two thirds?
We all saw The Martian. The secret is poop.
Biosludge pls, we’re being professional
Honestly I almost ignored the 10 months when reading the headline as my brain sorta ignored it. That is a goofily small amount of time for something like this.
The secret is Uyghurs labor
I think you mean Soylent Uyghur.
Of course it is, wouldn’t be a very good jobs program if it used Hong Kong labor.
It has that je ne sais quois
Да и хуй с ним, полезное дело делают
Ты что, ешь задницу Путина этим ртом? Позор тебе
Cool tech, but it still doesnt solve the much more pressing issue of procuring clean water and somehow transporting it to the freakin desert.
Just wait for the snow to melt.
