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Quantifying the "Energy-Return-on-Investment" of desert greening in the Sahara/Sahel using a Global Climate Model
2013
Earth System Dynamics Discussions
Greening" the world's deserts has been proposed as a way to produce additional food, sequester carbon, and alter the climate of desert regions. Here, we quantify the potential benefits in terms of energetic quantities and compare these to the energetic costs. We then compare these using the metric of Energy-Return-On-Investment (EROI). We 5 15 region is irrigated equally, the western coastal region from June to August had the highest EROI. Other factors would complicate such a large-scale
doi:10.5194/esdd-4-717-2013
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