Mirage?
If it appears you won't be able to make the trip to Venice for this year's Future of Science World Conference (the fourth annual), here's a taste of what you'll be missing. A trio of entrepreneurs will be unveiling their plan for turning the Sahara Desert into a huge source for renewable food, water and energy. The Sahara Forest Project is a 20 hectare, 80 million euro undertaking that will ultimately produce a titanic bio-entity that could potentially produce enough energy for all of Africa and Europe combined. It'll turn sea water into fresh water, it'll produce steam energy through the use of thousands of little mirrors to reflect the sun's light, and on top of it all, it looks like that.
