Bob Morris Posted on Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:30 pm.
Desertec is a consortium of large corporations and governments that wants to build humongous concentrated solar power plants in North Africa and the Middle East that would power Europe. I’ve always thought the Desertec plan was a bit dicey, given the its obvious overtones of colonialism and exploitation coupled with using CSP rather than photovoltaic. CSP reflects the heat [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sun Nov 4, 2012 11:00 am.
The huge European consortium Desertec has signed a memorandum with Morocco to build concentrating solar plants in Morocco. While their plan is admirable – build solar power plants in deserts in North Africa and the Middle East to create energy for those areas and Europe, concentrating solar power has always seem an odd choice to [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Dec 19, 2011 7:00 am.
Desertec is a set of plans for a massive network of solar and wind farms stretching across the MENA region and intended to connect to Europe via high voltage direct current transmission cables (which are supposed to only lose 3% of their electricity per 1000km, or 620 miles) This mammoth and ambitious project plans to [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Jun 24, 2010 13:57 pm.
If just one percent of the Saharan Desert were covered in concentrating solar panels it would create enough energy to power the entire world. That’s a powerful number, and the European Union has decided to jump on their proximity to the Sahara in order to reap some benefits from the untapped solar energy beaming down [...]
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