Power from our deserts

[Davy stephenson]

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[dave45]

You mean Gregor Czisch? It sounds great in theory... but needs multiple countries to co-operate and play nicely together

[Clara]

Sounds like a good idea until you think about...

a) the nasty EMR associated with nasty looking high tension cables

b) the ongoing situation with the gas pipeline from Russia through the Ukraine which has threatened energy supply to Europe.

c) the fact that many people believe that one of the main reasons for war in Afghanistan is more to do with pipelines that anti-taleban sentiment (i.e. before 9/11 and when the taleban regime were "onside" with the whole project the US didn't have a problem with what they were up to).

d) going further back, it has been suggested that one of the causes of the WW1 was because we had to secure oil in Iraq from the Germans as they were about to complete a railway link which would have basically done that for themselves.

So it seems wherever and whenever energy has to be moved across borders it becomes a reason for a bit of fraca.

It would also seem that I sound like a raving conspiracy theory nut, though it just so happens that these things are true.......

[Davy stephenson]

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[dave45]

But Saharan solar electricity would be green and guilt-free and there is oodles of it, and it will never run out. Thats worth having a go at, surely.