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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by cr0sh on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @01:28PM (#20879415)
> I suspect, though, that you're not trying to grow your own food. If you were, you might find the desert to be less suitable to human occupation than Minnesota.

Ahem - Yuma. Where your salad probably came from (maybe with some food-borne illness thrown in, but that's another discussion)...

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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @04:36PM (#20881156)
Sure. newnewpdro said Cadiz in the Mojave, though. They grow something there (pistachios?), but in very small quantity. It's not Yuma. They don't have the Colorado as a water source there.

Oddly enough, I go to Cadiz (California) on vacation sometimes...

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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by newnewpdro on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:25PM (#20882385)
> Oddly enough, I go to Cadiz (California) on vacation sometimes...

What do you do there for vacation? I wasn't aware there was anything out there other than some industry like the evaporative ponds on the wikipedia page...

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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:28PM (#20883077)
Watch trains. Be alone. (Hey, I'm an introvert.)

And there's some kind of orchards, though they aren't very big.

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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by magduf on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @05:01PM (#20881378)
The only reason agriculture is successful in Arizona is because they pump all the water out of the Colorado River to irrigate everything. As a result, the people in Mexico, farther downstream, have been screwed out of using this river.
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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by newnewpdro on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:18PM (#20880507)
Not sure why you're being downvoted, there definitely is a lot of agriculture in the California and Arizona deserts.
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