There’s a new plan being hatched in North Africa that will see solar panels placed all along the region. The energy produced by the solar farms would then be transfered to Europe using undersea power cables.
Billions of watts of power could be generated this way, enough to provide Europe with a sixth of its electricity needs and to allow it to make significant cuts in its carbon emissions. At the same time, the stations would be used as desalination plants to provide desert countries with desperately needed supplies of fresh water.
Last week Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan presented details of the scheme – named Desertec – to the European Parliament. ‘Countries with deserts, countries with high energy demand, and countries with technology competence must co-operate,’ he told MEPs.
The project has been developed by the Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Corporation and is supported by engineers and politicians in Europe as well as Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Jordan and other nations in the Middle East and Africa.
There is a new world wide web emerging right before our eyes.
It is a global energy network and, like the internet, it will change our culture, society and how we do business. More importantly, it will alter how we use, transform and exchange energy.
For more information, see http://www.terrawatts.com
There is a new world wide web emerging right before our eyes.
It is a global energy network and, like the internet, it will change our culture, society and how we do business. More importantly, it will alter how we use, transform and exchange energy.
For more information, see http://www.terrawatts.com
Three years of development has given birth to the most revolutionary desalination technology that has come along in the last 50 years. Cal-Neva Water Quality Research Institute in California has produced what is called the Plasma Incubator Reactor System that is a component based system that can either purify or desalinate water. It produces Hydrogen Gas as a by-product. It can produce enough electricity by use of the Norwiegen Wave Action Technology to power the entire system and there is no fossil fuel used to accomplish this. It has only been completed within the last two months and is now available to the world. I think this approach will antiquidate systems such as Reverse Osmosis and Nano Filtration which is an energy sink and they cannot create their own electricity.