Architecture Student Proposes Bacterially-Grown Wall Across the Entire Sahara Desert

To battle the Sahara Desert ’s ongoing growth , educatee Magnus Larsson has proposed a 6,000 km rampart that will be — wait for it — build by letting a bacteria have its agency with the sand , forming sandstone .

The bacterium , bacillus pasteurii , move around sand into firm sandstone anatomical structure very quickly , and the purpose bulwark could house a variety of prolonged oasis of water and vegetation , to be used by refugee for housing . It ’s trying to kill two enormous birds with an equally enormous stone : combat desertification and providing mass amounts of lodging for those who need it . The proposal won a plunder for sustainable agribusiness , but nothing this exorbitant is without its problem .

This kind of bacterial change has been performed in very little environments , but has never been sample in as big a scurf as the Sahara Desert . Besides the practicality of the task , there are also environmental business organization : This monumental a change to the ecosystem could have problems we ca n’t even foresee , from coinage extinctions to weewee shortfall . Not to mention a trouble that was n’t brought up in the clause : How do we get this thing to stop reach sandstone ? I ’m moderately sure experiments withice - ninedidn’t turn out so hot .

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