Using mirrors to light up the world?

In the desert, just across the Mediterranean sea, is a vast source of energy that holds the promise of a carbon-free, nuclear-free electrical future for the whole of Europe, if not the world.

We are not talking about the vast oil and gas deposits underneath Algeria and Libya, or uranium for nuclear plants, but something far simpler - the sun. And in vast quantities: every year it pours down the equivalent of 1.5m barrels of oil of energy for every square kilometre.

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/en...957908,00.html

[Haanu]

I have heard this theory of placing large solar farms in the desert before and always believed that the number might be correct that transporting this energy to places it is needed would be the problem as most of the power would then be lost in transport? Is that not so?

[kev67]

It says in the article that the power would be transported via high voltage DC power lines and that the power losses would be low.