[Matra et Alpine]

re future power

Recent proposal - fully researched and costed and using todays technology - is for a 100km x 100km area of solar collectors in the deserts of the Middle East. THAT would provide enough electricity power for ALL of Europe and the Middle East !!

THat's a trivial amount of space ( it doesn't all ahve to be in the one place anyway ) compared to the amount of desert. On top of that the shade the panels offered will mean it woudl be possible to grow crops beneath the collector panels AND water for the system would use electricity to desalinate sea water, use it and then deliver it to the soil once circulated. A lovely closed loop solution and utilising a fract of a craction of the total suns energy dumped on our planet every second.

Also, readily scalable, so they don't need to spend 100s of billions building "special" chambers, devices or anything. Start small and grow big AND with negligable negative impact on the environment and huge positive !

Watch out tho' if a Bush believer gets in then the deserts will be getting invaded