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The Sahara desert, unlike the Gobi for example and purportedly the optimal site of Desertec equipment, is 80:20, sand:soil, unevenly distributed. The maximum depths of its dunes and packed strata are, basically, unknown.
I found a youtube doc about Libyan (Gadaffi's) investment in reclamation that offers a succinct explanation of the financial and technical hurdles to agricultural success --without even the added expenses of solar and wind siting and maintenance.
Astro turf appears the least cost option. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
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