Interior Natural Desert Reclamation and Acclimatization project

Wide rivers can be turned on or off in hours, marshes and reservoirs can be drained or filled in a matter of days.

Deserts which cover 1/3 of our planet....are responsible for the majority of dangerous weather, as well as drought conditions  worldwide. Deserts remain the greatest impediment to the expansion of biomass.  Mankind has the technology and insight to largely eliminate deserts and improve life for billions of lives within a few human generations!

As  arctic  glaciers crumble island children sleep with nightmares as their homeland sinks into the sea, the world starves its poorest with quick fix half measures, like bio-fuels, and carbon trading to curtail dwindling natural resources, while rich habitats die decreasing bio-diversity.   The ancient weather god INDRA  offers real hope through generational sacrifice,  to rising sea-levels, and thirsty barren deserts.  INDRA [Interior Natural Desert Reclamation and Acclimatization project]  will provide healing rainfall to world deserts, calm the savage hurricane and cyclonic winds, and ensure the hydrology of diverse natural and man-made habitats by giving mankind control of the greatest force of mother nature...the climate.

Abstract:

The INDRA project is a climate control, irrigation, and bio-diversity enhancement scheme, designed to mitigate the challenges of global warming, and greater hydrological balance to the world.   Named for the rain goddess INDRA, the project will bring basic climate control  to large regions.  [Specifically increases in convectional rain and reductions in cyclonic rain by front balance and mitigation] INDRA stands for Interior natural desert reclamation and acclimatization project.  

The fundamental sciences behind the project are three fold.  The primary idea is the predictable climatic affects of controlled evaporation, not simple transport, of fresh and brackish water through the arid interior regions. 

Second, the application of clean energy sources to power dynamic water re-distribution programs worldwide. 

While the third is to reclaim bio-marginal desert land for more productive uses such as agriculture and bio-diverse habitats in ways that will allow industry itself to fund these projects as a part of carbon trading schemes.

A balanced hydrology can be achieved by manipulation of average rainfall levels, through  the redistribution of excess water from oceans, floods, lakes, reservoirs and salt marshes to arid and  agricultural areas.  Water dynamically transited, via gravity power, through a strategic network of channels can facilitate dynamic regional control of humidity, effectively managing local rainfall.

The primary idea of the project, is climate control through  tactical evaporation of water over long distance transit in  dark wide misty shallow channels, strategically located to facilitate regional climate control. As water is  transited over long distances, regional authorities are able to impact targets of 10-25% of regional evaporation. 

Wide rivers can be turned on or off in hours, marshes and reservoirs can be drained or filled in a matter of days.  Cities can use rain to clean the streets, the worlds deserts can become rich agricultural areas within decades, and dangerous weather conditions like hurricanes and tornados can be calmed on a seasonal basis.

The primary challenge of the scheme is power.  To move 100 gallons of seawater from the Pacific to the Mohave desert will require 1 Kw hour, not considering horizontal transit.  Additional energy will also be required to assist in the desalination of the seawater for agricultural uses along the transit.  These energy needs will be filled by clean energy technologies such as solar or wind, and also by  harvesting energy from regional vehicle traffic using our PEC [pressure to Energy Conversion] systems where feasible, or our GFG [Gravity flotation generation] systems known as T-dams when they reach commercial feasibility.

The plan:

The INDRA project proposes a series of regional specially designed channels, aqueducts, and desalination plants to process and redistribute water  as rainfall, from lower to higher interior elevations as needed, using the power of gravity.  This is a generational project, that will require political capital, real human sacrifice, and above all individual leadership.

Two projects are required.

Redistribution  through elevation: Seawater to desert : Seawater Elevator

Transcontinental evaporation controlled channels will move water from sea level over mountains to arid regions despite elevations or topographical limitations.  Regional  advantages in natural resources such as high winds or substantial sunlight along with roadway energy will be tapped for power, to operate a network of pumping stations, salt pans and desalination plants.   To facilitate control of local weather conditions, salt marshes will be established in key areas along the seawater route.  As the seawater moves inland it will become increasingly fresh, and will finally be delivered to distant reservoirs for municipal, agricultural irrigation, and recreational uses. 

Tactical redistribution :  Flood to farms

As excess water collects in any region served by the network, channels are controlled to facilitate redistribution.   Dangerous flooding can be controlled to mitigate infrastructure damage.  Planned seasonal redistributions affect regional agricultural schemes to facilitate effective crop selection, with higher quality levels and reduced risks. However, unlike traditional spate irrigation schemes which are often found in Africa and the middle-east, flood waters would be primarily re-directed to re-enter the hydrological cycle of much more distant arid regions via evaporation to rainfall. (please see technologies)

The power:

The key element of this global scheme is power.   The inter-regional movement of water is a power hungry endeavor.  We have undertaken this project because  the clean tech power sources necessary for a successful implementation exist.  Traditional clean technology power sources such as passive solar, wind and gravity feeds can be cost effectively employed.  Our hope is that our 2 core gravity power technologies, the traffic tap which is widely researched around the world, and an exciting  new technology, that we are releasing to the general public, the T-dam, will also be jump-started by the INDRA projects world wide..  More about these technologies is described in the technology section of this site,

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I found your website very interesting.  It is certainly an ambitious project, with the potential to change the face of the planet, and possibly to improve the lives of billions of people.  I am certainly not an expert on the technology you propose to use, but it sounds interesting and may be feasible.

Highly cited biologist ...Name withheld by request

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