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The 2 Ingredients for Self-Replicating Solar Power: Sahara Sand & Sun

Posted December 01, 2010 1:47 PM

From Discover Magazine | rsslist:

It's such a fertile time in the green technology sector, solar power plants may soon begin reproducing. Using two resources that the Sahara has plenty of, sun and sand, the Sahara Solar Breeder Project hopes to build factories that will refine the sand's silica into silicon. That silicon will be used to build solar panels, which will power more silica-refining and solar panel factories, which will be able to build more solar panels, and on and on and on.

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Re: The 2 Ingredients for Self-Replicating Solar Power: Sahara Sand & Sun

12/01/2010 11:19 PM

completely agree!

but they will have to perform a watershed environmental analysis first!

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