Farms: Qatar's Ambitious Plan to Turn the Desert Green
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Feeding 9 Billion: Turning the Desert Green: Qatar is trying to solve problems for desert people worldwide. But will the solution work? For downloads and more visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=65515 Petroleum-rich Qatar is spearheading projects to tackle the problems facing desert communities worldwide; from energy to fresh water and food production. But does their expensive, high-tech solution make sense? "Qatar in many ways is ground zero for a lot of the challenges we're going to see in the century ahead", argues US ex-pat Jonathan Smith, from the Qatar National Food Program. Soaring temperatures, swelling populations and minimal rainfall plague the otherwise booming nation. Now its leaders are pushing ambitious experiments like the Sahara Forest Project, transforming seawater and sunlight into fresh water, vegetables, electricity, biofuel and animal feed. "The techniques we're developing here can be applied in many regions in the world", the project scientists insist. Centre for Investigative Reporting: Ref-5870 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about.
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120 degrees, jeez, how are they still alive ? :D
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FIFA knows exactly why they awarded Qatar the World Cup. Just shows by watching this that Qatar can buy any thing they so desire.
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I'm from Tulsa OK
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Slave nation
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Wow I love technology the good side ......
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Massive tent structures that take away the harmful sun's rays. It works for the plants. Could be very cheap to produce.
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Get rid of islam and you can fix the desert.
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For Godssake! Its pronounced as Khat-ar & not Cut-ter ! Why don't Americans make some effort to pronounce correctly.
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they should a invested in arable land in Africa like the Chinese are doing, instead of squandering the money on indoor venetian gondola rides.
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It makes me laugh when i see the white man using phd and strong technology to solve the world's problems when everyone else is solving things just naturally.
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you really shouldn't forest over the Sahara, the earth needs the desert dust (amazon rain forest etc...)
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From Syria long live Qatar ❤
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Cutter :D
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good luck qattar
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I fucking hate Americans ignorance. If your going to report on a place, LEARN THE Pronunciation OF THE FUCKING NAME. !!!!
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Better than financing wars in Arabs countries like Syria and Libya and Yemen !!! this is a real human project,
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Sounds like Gaddafi until western powers destroyed Libya
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What if they just pumped sea water into s/steel pipes which would naturally heat the water thus dissolving the salt that can be then used for irrigation? ps I'm not a scientist just a thought'
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Why the fuck is he pronouncing Qutar like Ku-Ta, is pronounced Kah-Tar lmao
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They should use their funds to continue supporting ISIS!!!! Why the heck are they wasting money on all these projects?????