Posted on October 14, 2009.
Tagged with Climate Change, Energy Security, Water Scarcity, African Independence, research, Alternative Energy, .

Zoom Can you imagine how much land we’d have to use in order to power the world using concentrated solar energy? Well, not that much it turns out!! Apparently, according to [the brilliant] Inhabitat blog, it would take just 0.3% of the Sahara Desert land surface to power ALL OF EUROPE! Now imagine, a vast network of solar panels and wind turbines, connected in a circuit, that not only would enable African nations to become economically stable through monies collected as clean energy exporters but simultaneous end starvation and suffering by creating swathes of arable land, done by having de-salination* plants connected to the energy network, thus producing clean, drinkable, usable water. Imagine a world were Africa can not only feed itself, but energize the rest of the world without being exploited [again] in the process. Lets not imagine, thats been done! LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN! Read more at: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/04/sahara-forest-project/ http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/22/worlds-largest-solar-project-sahara-desert/ *Although expensive, de-salination plants energy costs would be reduced due to the proximity and stability of the solar energy supplies.

Can you imagine how much land we’d have to use in order to power the world using concentrated solar energy? Well, not that much it turns out!! Apparently, according to [the brilliant] Inhabitat blog, it would take just 0.3% of the Sahara Desert land surface to power ALL OF EUROPE!

Now imagine, a vast network of solar panels and wind turbines, connected in a circuit, that not only would enable African nations to become economically stable through monies collected as clean energy exporters but simultaneous end starvation and suffering by creating swathes of arable land, done by having de-salination* plants connected to the energy network, thus producing clean, drinkable, usable water.

Imagine a world were Africa can not only feed itself, but energize the rest of the world without being exploited [again] in the process.

Lets not imagine, thats been done! LETS MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Read more at:

http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/09/04/sahara-forest-project/

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/22/worlds-largest-solar-project-sahara-desert/

*Although expensive, de-salination plants energy costs would be reduced due to the proximity and stability of the solar energy supplies.