Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Saharan Solar Farm Could Power Europe


EU scientists have said that vast farms of solar panels throughout the Sahara desert could provide clean electricity for the whole of Europe, a project that could be the centerpiece of an ambitious $50 billion European supergrid that would allow countries to share electricity from abundant green sources such as sun, wind and geothermal (Photo: Waltraud Grubitzsch/EPA/Corbis)

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