The actual showstopper is way simpler than you considered.
Solar panels and desalination equipment costs money and human labor to deploy and maintain.
If the cost is greater than the economic value of the gain, where gain = (cheapest already arable land) - (price of a West Texas acre), it isn’t worth doing.
If I had some numbers on the cost we could check this numerically.
How could you make this plan work? Cheaper equipment that mostly deploys and maintains itself.
How could you get equipment that is cheap enough? Make SoTa in AI just a little bit better, and deploy it to robotics that autonomously do industrial tasks with minimal human supervision. Tasks like manufacturing and mining. Including the manufacturing of themselves.
The actual showstopper is way simpler than you considered.
Solar panels and desalination equipment costs money and human labor to deploy and maintain.
If the cost is greater than the economic value of the gain, where gain = (cheapest already arable land) - (price of a West Texas acre), it isn’t worth doing.
If I had some numbers on the cost we could check this numerically.
How could you make this plan work? Cheaper equipment that mostly deploys and maintains itself.
How could you get equipment that is cheap enough? Make SoTa in AI just a little bit better, and deploy it to robotics that autonomously do industrial tasks with minimal human supervision. Tasks like manufacturing and mining. Including the manufacturing of themselves.