132558Developing Opportunities for Seawater Greenhouse in South AfricaClosedFeasibility StudiesInnovate UKThe study will assess the potential for application of the Seawater Greenhouse process along the arid coasline of South Africa and Namibia. Using climate data from the region, we will model how the approach will perform, cooling and humidifying the climate and generating a new source of fresh water for irrigation. Agriculture in the region is currently marginal and risky, as evaporation exceeds precipitation several-fold. Successful implementation will result from teamwork, combining academic, commercial and polititical interests locally, to establish an entity with the required skills, support, know-how and resources to develop and implement a successful project that leads to commercial scale-up. Many of these have already been identified, but so too have gaps, and these we will seek to fill. We will also investigate established frameworks for cross cutting research, development and implementation, such as the Newton and Agri-tech Catalyst programs.