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One such key megaproject could be the so-called Desertec project, which attempts to tap solar power in the Sahara desert for consumption in Europe.
ABB Wins Contract to Build Indian Power Highway Goran Mijuk 2011
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Now, Czisch\'s work is the basis for the 400 billion dollar North African Energy project, known as Desertec-i.e. the largest European and African energy development project undertaken.
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The project -- dubbed Desertec -- would aim to provide up to 15% of Europe's electricity by 2050, as well as address growing energy needs in North Africa and the Middle East.
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That could increase the willingness of banks and utilities to invest in a project called Desertec, which would harvest the sun's energy using a method known as concentrating solar power, or C.S.P., from the vast North African desert and deliver it as electricity, via high-voltage transmission lines, to markets in Europe.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES KANTER 2011
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That could increase the willingness of banks and utilities to invest in a project called Desertec, which would harvest the sun's energy using a method known as concentrating solar power, or C.S.P., from the vast North African desert and deliver it as electricity, via high-voltage transmission lines, to markets in Europe.
NYT > Home Page By JAMES KANTER 2011
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Prospects for the project, called Desertec, have blossomed over the past year, and this month 20 major German corporations are expected to announce the formation of a consortium that will provide the €400 billion needed to build a raft of solar thermal power plants in north Africa.
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Prospects for the project, called Desertec, have blossomed over the past year, and this month 20 major German corporations are expected to announce the formation of a consortium that will provide the €400 billion needed to build a raft of solar thermal power plants in north Africa.
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An American organization supporting the perennial fringe presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche, for example, called Desertec - rather inexplicably - a "genocidal, Malthusian, energy plan."
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: Tom Z 2009
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An American organization supporting the perennial fringe presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche, for example, called Desertec ‐ rather inexplicably ‐ a '' genocidal, Malthusian, energy plan. ''
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Prospects for the project, called Desertec, have blossomed over the past year, and this month 20 major German corporations are expected to announce the formation of a consortium that will provide the €400 billion needed to build a raft of solar thermal power plants in north Africa.
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