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FIFTEEN PERCENT OF EUROPE'S ELECTRICITY COULD COME FROM THE SAHARA DESERT
ENN - A $400 billon plan to provide Europe with solar power from the Sahara desert moved a step closer to reality with the formation of a consortium of 12 companies to carry out the work. Known as the Desertec Industrial Initiative), the German-led consortium consists of some of country's biggest engineering and power companies, along with Munich Re, the largest reinsurer in the world.
Since the project was first announced in July, the DII has gained support from a wide variety of political and governmental institutions in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
The DDI believes it can deliver solar power to Europe as early as 2015. It aims to provide 15% of Europe's electricity by 2050 or earlier via power lines stretching across the desert and Mediterranean Sea.
5 Comments:
They should maybe think about the movement of sand.
Not sand is land mounted Sahara.
Bye dio
So instead of taking others oil we'll now be taking up the land that they could otherwise be using to produce their own power? Wonderful.
No, Lars, not instead, in addition.
But it's a lousy idea on technical grounds --it wasn't humans who buried that 2500yo army.
How do you protect your power supply if it's located on another continent? Madness upon madness upon lies.
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