blog posts Study: Large-scale wind and solar farms in the Sahara would increase heat, rain, vegetation Sep 7, 2018 2:30 pm by Diana YatesResearch Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images Using a new climate-modeling approach, U. of I. postdoctoral researcher Yan Li and his colleagues found that a massive wind and solar installation in the Sahara Desert could have beneficial climatic and ecological effects. Share on Facebook Tweet Email