Another one bites the dust! Desertec’s aim was to capitalise - TopicsExpress



          

Another one bites the dust! Desertec’s aim was to capitalise on the desert sun, which it estimated could provide more power in six hours than mankind could use in a year. Spread over a 6,500 square mile area more than half the size of Belgium, Desertec’s projected delivery of more than 1 terawatt hours would have been almost enough energy to power the whole of Germany for two years. But early on industry analysts had highlighted that northern African states carried significant political risks and warned that at an expected budget of 400 billion euros ($506 billion) the project was too expensive to be practical.
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 02:53:27 +0000

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