Un article de synthèse sur l'intérêt de l'électricité thermosolaire en provenance des déserts vient d'être publié dans le grand magazine allemand Spiegel. D'après Courrier International, le site du Spiegel est le magazine en ligne qui a le plus de succès en Allemagne.

Is Desert Solar Power the Solution to Europe's Energy Crisis?
By Jens Lubbadeh, 30 avril 2008 

A tiny fraction of the sun's energy that shines upon the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East could meet all of Europe's electricity demands. The technology to harness the energy already exists. So why is hardly anyone investing in it?  (...) DESERTEC is no futuristic vision -- the technology already exists and is tried and tested. Since the mid 1980s, solar thermal power plants have been operating trouble-free in the US states of California and Nevada. More plants are currently being built in southern Spain. And building work has started on solar thermal power plants in Algeria, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates (...)  Solar Sarko (...) Even French President Nicolas Sarkozy has also suddenly discovered solar energy, despite his recent sales of nuclear power plants to North African states. "We are being inundated with enquiries from France," says Müller-Steinhagen. Sarkozy wants to promote solar energy within his controversial Union for the Mediterranean, a proposal for a loose alliance of countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea and other EU states (...)

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