“Within 6 Hours Deserts Receive More Energy from the Sun than Humankind Consumes Within a Year”

13 years ago Zachary Shahan 6 Comments

 

This is a nice quote from the Desertec site, featured on the image above, that I thought made for another nice, short weekend share. And, of course, that’s a pretty stunning statistic. Any wonder why some of the world’s top companies are putting over half a trillion dollars into Desertec?

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