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Desert Control Inc
Stavanger, Norway
Tlf: +47 51547050
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Transforming dune sand into farmland:
 
In True deserts there is little that can grow, due to moving sand and little retained water.

Its also giving off CO2 and converting light to heat

 
Treating the Desert with Nano Clay, fixates the sand, and increases the available water with 25%  
Sand, enlarged by microscope, with Nano Clay

The Nano Clay works as an binder of sand and keeps moist in the sand.

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Plant roots will have a steady growth condition and any plant, which can survive dry conditions, will grow.

We have a feasibility study for sinking CO2 per square kilometre that equals 1700-3000 Tons/km2

 
     
     
This is some of our  institutes have  

 

 results that OTHER      obtained and verified  for us:  
Wind erosion:

‘Nano Clay’  27m˛/sec.=>No wind erosion, that's equal to hurricane strength.

Tested at "Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences"           

 

  
Increased water availability Increase the amount of available water in the soil up to 1.5 times of its amount in the untreated soil sample  
 

Increased germination

 

    
 

Penetration Resistance:

 

Mixing dune sands with Nano Clay (w/w) has resulted in increasing the penetration resistance from about 0.4 to 1.40 MPa/cm2. This remarkable impact is favourable for both plant production as well as environmental requirements.

These low values of soil strength do not impede root growth of most of the cultivated crops while improving the soil bearing capacity and thus trafficability.

 		  
The Result:

 

  • Revegetation of deserts by ‘Nano Clay’ leads to an immediate stop of wind erosion, generating aggregates in the soil and a higher availability of water. This enhances the growth of plants/trees.

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  • This gives the owners of the land the possibility of choosing the plants/trees most suitable for the area.
  • Revegetation of deserts leads to more available water in quantity and quality, thus triggering or enhancing socioeconomic possibilities at the national and international level.

 

 		  
     
 
 
 
Research and Facts
 
 
This is the way to make the hyper arid deserts green.
The treatment will stop the sand movement, and contains just natural components and water.

Horizontal heat transmission coefficient 20 W/(m2 x °K).

Today’s surplus is in the range of: 3°C surplus temperature in the Artic Ocean Area 14 056 000 km2
14 056 000 x 3 x 20 MW = 843 360 000 MW

Energy reduction to air by changing from bare sand surface to grass covered areas( surface temperatures measured in 10th Nov 2006, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt) :
(51,6°-32°)x20 – (34,6°-32°)x20 = 340 W/m2 = 340 MW / km2

This gives a requirement for converting sandy arid and hyper arid deserts to greened area of:
843 360 000 MW / 340 MW = 2 480 471 km2
in order to cope with today’s surplus manmade heat.

In addition converting arid and hyper arid sandy deserts to greened areas this will sink a lot of CO2

And we have a feasibility study for sinking CO2 per square kilometre that equals 1700-3000 Tons/km2