African Sun to Help Combat Carbon Emissions in Europe
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Europe is studying plans to spend over £5bn on a chain of giant star solar power stations on the Mediterranean desert shores of northern Africa and the Middle East.
More than a 100 of the generators, all matched with 1000s of huge mirrors, would render electricity to be transmitted by subsurface cable to Europe and then dispersed over the continent to European Union member nations.
Billions of watts of could be generated , something that can provide the European market with about a sixth of its power needs. This would result in noticeable cuts in carbon emissions, an issue which attends to global warming. The same plants would also be able to provide water to the desert nations in the Sahara countries.
All this was disclosed during the meeting of Prince Hassan Bin Talal of Jordan with the parliament in the project he termed as Desertec.
The task has been built up by the Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Corporation and is backed up by engineers and politicians in Europe as well as Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Jordan and other countries in the Middle East and Africa.
Europe would offer first finances for developing the solar technology that will be required to run plants as well as funds for constructing prototype stations. After that, banks and financial institutions, as well as home governments, would take over the building programme, which could cost a lot more than £200bn over the next 30 years.
Scientists approximate that sunlight could render 10,000 times the amount of energy needed to live up to mankind prevalent energy needs.
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