The way we can fulfill our future energy needs is to construct hundreds of miles long Solar farms in the Sahara region of Africa, since this vast desert is of little value to anyone except the Govt. of various countries in Northern Africa, like Algeria, Chad, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan etc
The idea is to get a consortium of private investors, hitech companies, and by engaging top engineers and scientist to develop a modular solar generating system biggest in the whole world, system of solar panels, erected on high stands off the ground to stop them getting covered by sand storms, and have access roads for servicing for miles upon miles, not just hundreds of miles but perhaps all the way across the Sahara desert, stretching thousands of miles,
The project itself becomes like a huge power station and any acts of terrorist blowing part of this will have negligible effect on its overall out put, a real mega project.
Partly maintained by locals, creating local jobs, so they won't have to come to Europe in boats and risk lives, the modular system means if one panel array goes down, it automatically disconnects itself from the grid and flags a service call, underneath the supporting framework, you have stations like we have motorway services, this becomes a small town housing maintenance staff and other essential things to support a small community, and including accommodations for any foreign engineers for supplying expertise, accommodations , have mass storage of batteries, that retain charge for continuing supplying energy during dark hours, etc,
It may take a few years to plan, once it is completed, as it is modular, it can take several years to complete, so it can start producing electricity as it is being build, and expanded, increasing its output on a daily bases, until it has sufficient capacity to power whole of Europe, via a network of underground cables running below the Mediterranean sea, out of reach of most terrorist.
A project of this sort needs to start planning now and build using whatever raw materials we now have before we completely run out of oil, and countries like China could build all the modules and equipment cheaply, supplying millions of modules, supporting structures, batteries, and the land is virtually free, given by each sahara Government in return for some levy on energy exported, so this mega project would require the effort of all big ministers, engineers and scientist and millions of private investors from all over the globe, and this Mega Mega Solar Power Energy hose could be the biggest of its kind in the whole world. it could supply all of Europe and possibly all of Africa for its energy needs.
