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Fuel and Earth
Solar Energy and Future
By 2050, around 10bn people will inhabit the Earth. And they will want to provide themselves with food, water, energy and other necessities. Changes in the climate will accelerate and the prerequisites of life for a majority of the world‘s population will be in serious danger. In view of these alarming possibilities, the main question today may no longer be whether or when we will begin to reduce the strain on Earth
Our Sun offers a way out: Within the space of six hours, the world‘s deserts receive more energy than all the people in the world consume in a year. The only question we have to answer is: "How can this radiant energy be conomically transformed into useful energy and transported to consumers.
Studies by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) show that, within 40 years, solar thermal power plants in particular will be capable of generating economically more than half of the electricity needs of the EUMENA region (Europe, the Middle East, North Africa) at that time.
Facts
How can we manage with up to 10 billion people by 2050 living on this one, irreplaceable earth?
The human population is already larger than the Earth can sustain. By 2050, three earths will be needed to meet human demands
Fossil Fuel costs
are not only mining, production and delivering, but extends to air pollution, global warming, acid rain, and water pollution.
Fossil Fuel will run out
We are using fossil fuels up 100,000 times faster than they are being made. if we carry on at this rate without any increase for our known oil deposits will be gone by 2052
More than 90% of the people in the world live within 3000 km of a desert and may be supplied with solar electricity from there
Solar Area to Cover our Need
Red areas are sufficient for Concentrating Solar thermal Power Plants to generate as much electricity needed for world , Europe of MENA