VIDEO: Gerhard Knies on deserts as energy source
Posted by Monique van Dusseldorp on December 14, 2009 at 8:25 am
TEDxAmsterdam: Gerhard Knies from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo.
Dr. Gerhard Knies is a co-founder of TREC, a network of experts on sustainable energy. TREC gave rise to the DESERTEC initiative, a unique industry initiative to develop a reliable, sustainable and climate-friendly energy supply from the deserts in the Middle East and North Africa. In his TEDxAmsterdam talk Knies explains the concept and shows that the idea is realistic.
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From Wired UK, Our Man in Amsterdam: “His solution was exciting – converting deserts into massive solar farms, and more importantly, feasible: he estimated that with the help of subsidies, the technology could become an attractive option to the financial markets within 6 years. The momentum from that, he argued, would mean clean energy for all within 25 years and would cost less than €40 billion.”
And as a bonus, an interview with Dr Gerhard Knies on CNN:
