What next for Desert Energy?
Desertec's grand vision may have been dealt a blow, but desert solar power could still play a major role in the world's clean energy mix
It is one of the grandest visions of a renewable future: huge fields of solar panels stretching across the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East, providing abundant cheap energy to the region and...
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