I’m wondering who will ultimately benefit and who will be exploited/screwed with this concept. Will the African countries have a fair gain, or will they see an excess amount of money leave their countries?

Quite fascinating that locations where there may be near-zero electricity available could supply countries hundreds or thousands of miles away to quench electricity demands. How much of this concept is aimed at developing poverty stricken locations?

Answers to these questions might be addressed to some degree at the Desertec website, but I have not explored all of it yet. I look forward to a more broad and deeper look at what this all means to those regions of the world.

I’m wondering who will ultimately benefit and who will be exploited/screwed with this concept. Will the African countries have a fair gain, or will they see an excess amount of money leave their countries?

Quite fascinating that locations where there may be near-zero electricity available could supply countries hundreds or thousands of miles away to quench electricity demands. How much of this concept is aimed at developing poverty stricken locations?

Answers to these questions might be addressed to some degree at the Desertec website, but I have not explored all of it yet. I look forward to a more broad and deeper look at what this all means to those regions of the world.

I’m wondering who will ultimately benefit and who will be exploited/screwed with this concept. Will the African countries have a fair gain, or will they see an excess amount of money leave their countries?

Quite fascinating that locations where there may be near-zero electricity available could supply countries hundreds or thousands of miles away to quench electricity demands. How much of this concept is aimed at developing poverty stricken locations?

Answers to these questions might be addressed to some degree at the Desertec website, but I have not explored all of it yet. I look forward to a more broad and deeper look at what this all means to those regions of the world.

fewer than 2M people each and about 350 days per year of blast furnace sun!!!

fewer than 2M people each and about 350 days per year of blast furnace sun!!!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-solar-grand-plan

A similar project was estimated in a Scientific American estimate for powering one third of the USA off of space in Nevada.

Surprisingly it would use less land than is now used for mountainyop strip coal mining. And the desert creatures could still run around around underneath solar collectors as they do now. Unlike coal mining.

“Solar Grand Plan published in Scientific American said we could power 1/3 of the nations electricity with 30,000 square miles of photovoltaic arrays.

That sounds like a lot of space, but that is actually less square miles than coal per gigawatt produced, when you include the mined areas, not merely coal power stations. It seems like a lot because its all in one place, unlike coal mines.

More than enough land in the Southwest is available without requiring use of environmentally sensitive areas, population centers or difficult terrain, says the NREL. More than 80 percent is not privately owned. Arizona is very interested in developing this solar potential because coal is water intensive. This could eliminate the need for more than half the nation’s coal plants.”