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    20 Sep '11 18:04
    Originally posted by AThousandYoung
    That is not consistent with the plan of selling the energy to Europe.
    I thought we were talking about African villages.
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    20 Sep '11 18:06
    Originally posted by Teinosuke
    When I first read about this or a comparable scheme, the main resources were supposed to be geothermal energy from Iceland, wind and tidal energy from Northern Europe, and solar energy from Spain and the Sahara. I suppose the last component of the scheme may have to wait until we know what kind of regimes are going to emerge from the North African part of ...[text shortened]... s of the Nevada desert could, in theory, provide all of the energy needs of the United States.
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    20 Sep '11 20:18
    Originally posted by divegeester
    Pumping millions of gallons of water over hundreds of miles in and out of the desert just to warm it up is the worst idea ever; and is certainly a "no brainer"; as would be trying to run electricity cables to collect the feeble amount of charge which would then have to be driven hundreds of miles into the grid.
    I was just asking, dude, no reason to be cantankerous.
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