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Reclaiming Africa's deserts using.... bacteria?

Hi all,
what do people make of this bacteria-desert wall plan for African' deserts?

Inhabitat Generating Giant Sandstone Walls to Fight Desertification


The bacteria plan seems to concentrate on limiting the movements of vast amounts of sand using bacteria to create a sand-wall?





This is their solar city plan... something our last Australian of the year and global warming Author Tim Flannery also seems pretty keen on. (He writes about an Australian inland city called "Geothermia" using our hot rock geothermal and solar thermal energy to power an inland greened desert city).
Inhabitat Sahara Forest Project Converts Desert into Oasis


If we can't reclaim African deserts, what chance do we have of Terraforming Mars?


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