The Sonoran Linear Rain Forest Project

A feasibility study is presently underway to examine the potential to construct a >One Billion Gallon/Day seawater pipeline from Puerto Penasco, Sonora, on the Sea of Cortez, northward to Sells, Arizona, where it would branch in two, toward Phoenix and Las Vegas to the NW and Tucson and Albuquerque to the NE. More than a simple pipeline, it is potentially of dramatic benefit to everyone along its path.

All along its path, concentrated solar energy enables clean desalination of fresh water for human and livestock consumption, irrigation, and aquaculture. Algae-based biofuel systems capture atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, and convert it to Ethanol and Biodiesel, with large quantitites of high protein livestock feed as a byproduct. Livestock manure and agricultural/aquacultural wastes produced from the water and food made available through the system are then digested/composted to produce fertilizers which can reclaim the sandy desert as productive soil on an ever increasing scale.

Tens of thousands of jobs would be created in the Mexican municipalities of Plutarco Elías Calles (Sonoyta) and Puerto Penasco, and across the Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona, and a multi-billion dollar biofuels and agricultural industry would arise there, on what is now the most barren, inhospitable land in the hemisphere.

Strategic, Financial, and Working Partners are sought to participate in all aspects of this project, which is undergoing initial organization and planning. Representation in Mexico is sought, particularly in the capacities of liaison with the Federal Ministries for Energy, the Environment, and Economic Development, and their counterpart agencies with the Sonoran state government in Hermosillo.

The first phase of the project requires us to locate a site on the coast, near Puerto Penasco, where a pilot facility can be tested, and from which, presumeably, the pipeline would ultimately originate. Anyone with knowledge of the real estate market in the region would be immediately helpful.

Additional information on the project will be posted here, as it takes shape. All questions, comments, and other input are welcome.

David L. Wenbert
david.wenbert@gmail.com