Peter Löscher, PDG du groupe allemand Siemens, parle, en exclusivité pour Les Afriques, du projet pharaonique et futuriste Desertec Industrial Initiative. Desertec prévoit la mise en place au Sahara de centrales solaires destinées à fournir 15% des besoins en électricité de l’Europe. Peter Löscher, défend la fiabilité financière et technologique de Desertec et explique pourquoi l’Afrique du Nord et l’ensemble du continent ont beaucoup à y gagner. Pour lire le texte intégral : http://www.lesafriques.com/actualite/peter-loscher-l-afrique-du-nord-est-predestinee-pour-dese.html?Itemid=89?article=19755

The desert power project DESERTEC could develop to an important source of income for North Africa and promote the economic integration of the continent. By Abdelaziz Bennouna The desert power project DESERTEC has proponents and opponents. Its advocates see a huge change for the future in it. Opponents accuse it of gigantism. They defend the decentralized power generation as the future consumer oriented production form. Solar electricity production is a new form of agriculture, the energy agriculture. It has a very old and experienced sister in the food agriculture, which converts sunbeams and produces primary digestible sources of energy (like grain, vegetable and fruit), and produces secondary digestible sources of energy (like meat, eggs, milk and cheese). Grain can be produced on large fields most economically and, in principle, healthy for humans and nature. It is similar with solar power. Electric current is a basic source of energy. At the beginning of the twentieth century […]