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How to catch the Sahara's sun for Europe

By David Stock

26 October 2009

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The future of solar power is heating up

(Image: Randy Montoya/SES)

An ambitious project called Desertec plans to build huge solar power plants in the Sahara desert to feed clean energy to Europe. Political opposition aside, the scheme’s backers also face technical hurdles and must decide which of the solar technologies below can deliver on such a scale.

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