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African Solar Power Plants for Europe
July 20, 2009 | CNN

The DesertTech Industrial Initiative could be the largest alternative energy project of all time. Their goal is to build solar farms across northern Africa and the Middle East and then transmit the power to Europe.


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Security of US Nuclear Plants
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World’s Largest Solar Power Contract
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