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Lexxigramer
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posted August 19, 2014 10:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Lexxigramer     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
This Is The Area Of Solar Panels It Would Take To Power The World, Europe, And Germany.

quote:
This image, which has gone viral on Tumblr, comes from
“Eco-balance of a Solar Electricity Transmission from North Africa to Europe”, a diploma thesis by Nadine May at the Techniucal University of Braunschweig.
http://www.dlr.de/tt/Portaldata/41/Resources /dokumente/institut/system/projects/Ecobalance_of_a_Solar_Electricity_Transmission.pdf

As the thesis shows, the area required for the panels is far from the only consideration. For example, there are the environmental impacts of overhead lines, underground cables, and submarine cables.
In the thesis, May writes:

These considerations only serve to point at the large potential of this energy
resource and technology respectively. It should not give the impression [that this is] the only option for the expansion of renewable energies.

However, she concludes:

The general statement can be formulated that, from an ecological point of view, nothing is opposed to the expansion of solar thermal energy in North Africa and a transmission of the generated solar electricity to Europe.



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posted August 20, 2014 07:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
interesting!

I keep reading it`s the thing of our future but the future keeps slipping by. The cost of solar panals for a general household is quite cost prohibitive.

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posted August 20, 2014 07:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Very interesting!

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posted August 21, 2014 12:38 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for mirage29     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I saw the report... Thank you Lexxi!
Very interesting.

Want to give you a compliment here... I love the "art" of your post. Your posts are often a feast for the eyes. (Complimenting you on that, in addition to the interesting topics and depth of the info you provide).

I clicked the link and loved reading through the pdf. The scientific manual's construction, formatting, and organization was a perfect treat... ! *slurp* ahhh!!!!

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