/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10380021
How?

>just pour ocean water inland
You'd be fucking up ocean currents and hence disturbing thousands of ecosystems globally. You'd also be destroying farmland that grows lots of Australian exports and food. Wells won't work either to support a rainforest. Rainforests are soaking wet and are constantly exposed to precipitation and humidity. Wells just can't support that.

>just build giant fans to redirect humid air inland
Powered by what? Solar? You'd need a massive amount of energy to even push the moist air a noticeable amount. Have you ever stood a few meters away from a fan? You don't feel any wind anymore. Are you seriously suggesting a massive relay of huge fans across Australia or something--even more so disrupting the environment?

>what about soils? Outback soils have no nutrients capable of sustaining a rainforest
>hydroponics, bro
So the rainforest will be manually sustained? A fucking rainforest? Your plan is to create a giant artificial ecosystem instead of one that is actually integrated into the environment and can support itself? No way. It would be easier to just create a bacteria or plant that is super efficient in photosynthesis and regulate their distribution in order to combat global warming.

It's impossible to safely create any kind of rich ecosystem in the Australian outback. You can't grow anything out there beyond dry shrubs and grasses and hardy insects and reptiles. Even if you could get enough water flowing, you'd still need fertile soils. It would be your best option to implement fertile soils along the water source then plant vegetation so it then grows outwards over the many years, but even then it wouldn't be close to a rainforest.