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 Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 8:59 am Post subject: North Africa’s deserts may provide 15% Europe’s electricity |
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| Quote: | North Africa’s deserts could provide 15% of Europe’s electricity
14 July 2009
A large number of networked solar thermal power plants in the Middle East and North Africa could produce sufficient renewable power to meet around 15% of Europe’s electricity needs and large parts of the power needs of the producer countries.
The plans were announced alongside the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up DESERTEC Industrial Initiative (DII) on 13 July. The objective of the DII is to analyse and develop the technical, economic, political, social and ecological framework for renewable power generation such as solar thermal plants and windfarms in the deserts of North Africa. |
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JamesB
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CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) is certainly a promising option and its good to see they are finally doing something about it. It needs a long distance High Voltage DC cable to make it feasible.
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Ratchet
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Hiya,
I first heard about this after reading an article a while back in one of the Sunday Times Magazines about David JC MacKay's "Sustainable Energy -- Without the Hot Air".
It's available as a free pdf download http://www.withouthotair.com/ and makes for very informative and interesting reading. The book discusses all sources of energy including a bit about CSP.
If this has been posted elsewhere I apologise.
Yours
R
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