Thursday, December 03, 2009


Can Saharan Solar Power Save Europe?
For years, the idea of generating solar power for Europe in the Sahara was dismissed as pure fantasy. But then all of sudden it was happening, and Desertec was making headlines worldwide.

The Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII), a consortium of 12 large companies, plans to cover thousands of square kilometers of the Sahara Desert with solar thermal energy collectors. According to the plan, solar power from the desert will sate an energy-hungry world, a world in which oil reserves are dwindling and in which the climate is changing as a result of the use of oil, coal and gas reserves.


The amount of energy that the sun provides every day over the Sahara is so huge that solar plants covering 90,000 square kilometers of desert would be enough to provide the whole world with clean, emissions-free energy. Yet that whole area would be little more than just a glittering speck in the vast expanse of desert, which covers some 9 million square kilometers.

# posted by intcoex : 8:31 PM




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