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Terraformation
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Terraformation is the company blog at terraformation.com, writing about science and business. Since 2020, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Global forest restoration is the most effective carbon capture opportunity”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Terraformation's blog and site, which cover solar-powered water desalination and reforestation for ecosystem restoration. One commenter says the posts explain why desalination is needed.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Terraformation helps the world restore native forests. We build the tools, train the teams, and prove what restoration at scale really takes.
Most-linked posts?
- Global forest restoration is the most effective carbon capture opportunity4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2021-02-25
- Trees Are a Faster Solution to Climate Change Than Technology2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-21
- /about2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-21
What Hacker News says?
Yishan Wong, of Reddit CEO infamy, has been working on this for a few years: https://www.terraformation.com/
Comment linking /
on “Simple, solar-powered water desalination (2020)”Submitted Global forest restoration is the most effective carbon capture opportunity as a story · 50 points
HN discussionI'm thinking wildly here and not getting into technicals, but it could also be seen not necessarily for humans but also for ecosystem restoration efforts in harsh remote environments. For example, while I have some viability questions the company Terraformation has been trial'ing photovoltaic solar powered water desalinization (using brackish wells as a source) in deforested areas for water - https://www.terraformat…
Comment linking /blog/solar-powered-desalination-reverse-desertification
on “Google open sources solar atmospheric water generator”Submitted Trees Are a Faster Solution to Climate Change Than Technology as a story · 15 points
HN discussionYishan Wong (ex Reddit CEO) is working on desalination via solar power that sounds promising: https://www.terraformation.com/blog/our-project-in-hawaii
Comment linking /blog/our-project-in-hawaii
on “Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater”https://www.terraformation.com/blog/trees-are-a-faster-solut...
Comment linking /blog/trees-are-a-faster-solution-to-climate-change-than-technology
on “Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic”These folks are serious and they just raised 30 million to provide vast quantities of cheap, desalinated water: https://www.terraformation.com/ Seems crazy now, but vast forests covering most of Algeria may be entirely possible in your lifetime.
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on “Heat dome causing record breaking heat wave”This is the mission at Terraformation[0] (no affiliation) [0]: https://www.terraformation.com/about
Comment linking /about
on “So you want to build a carbon capture company”I recently listened to the audiobook of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates. It was a fine tour of the landscape of solutions. My main takeaway is that we're going to need to do a wide variety of things in a wide variety of sectors. He gets into stuff like concrete, which is very important in growth but also big on emissions. With respect to reforestation: Gates says it would help, but possibly not as much…
Comment linking /about
on “Show HN: Make continuous reforestation part of your daily workflow”You should read some of terraformation's blog posts, they're quite sensible and talk about why you need desalination. Tldr, while forests do create their own microclimate, maintaining moisture, etc you need desalination for the first decade or two while the forest boots up. Also, desalination is largely a function of energy, as solar falls in price, so does the cost of desalination. https://terraformation.com/blog/s…
Comment linking /blog/solar-powered-desalination-reverse-desertification
on “We need more water than rain can provide: refilling rivers with desalination”Yishan Wong's startup Terra formation( https://www.terraformation.com/ ) is trying to tackle climate change with this more or less as the underlying thesis.
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on “A Revelation About Trees Is Messing with Climate Calculations”It's also worth asking how desalination can be used in say afforestation or ecosystem restoration, to improve evapotranspiration of water over a landscape where appropriate. I recall the CEO of terraformation (Yishan Wong) talking about using desal with brackish wells : https://www.terraformation.com/blog/solar-powered-desalinati...
Comment linking /blog/solar-powered-desalination-reverse-desertification
on “Passive Solar Water Desalination”
