Sahara solar panel farm 'the size of Wales' will power European cities | Mail Online
A series of huge solar panel farms in the Sahara desert could be the key to cutting Europe's carbon footprint, according to scientists planning to harness the power of the sun.
The ambitious vision is at the heart of scheme for a new £35.7billion supergrid that would allow European countries to share electricity from eco-friendly sources.
The solar panels would cover an area just smaller than the size of Wales and experts claim that it could supply the entire continent with green electricity.
The idea has been backed by Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Clunker.
"Speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, Arnulf Jaeger-Walden of the European commission's Institute for Energy, said that the panels would only need to capture 0.3 per cent of the sunlight falling in the Sahara and Middle East deserts to meet all of Europe's energy requirements."
I don't believe that 0.3% of all the sunlight falling on the Sahara and all Middle East deserts can be captured for "35.7 billion pounds."
My back of envelope calculation is it will cost 357 TRILLION pounds.
To hell with the endangered species, of course.
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