Solar TPower in Africa

Naomi-K

3-18-2008 6:41 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1a67be2d-d7a0-42ef-b6fa-059617295c8e/F49F920B-7C45-4ECE-B2F0-130EE533B327/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6540&Itemid=5848" href="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6540&Itemid=5848" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bdafrica.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6540&Itemid=5848"><DIV><STRONG><DIV align="center" class="mosimage"><IMG width="300" hspace="6" height="340" border="0" title="Image" alt="Image" src="http://www.bdafrica.com/images/stories/contributors to the comments section/bd-David_Mataen.jpg" /><DIV align="left" class="mosimage_caption">David Mataen </DIV></DIV>March 19, 2008: </STRONG>Never in the history of modern civilisation was there so great need for energy like now. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6540&Itemid=5848"><DIV>Ironically, the most abundant, most renewable, most free of all renewable resources is the sun. 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Naomi-K says:

An interesting economic proposition . Countries that were previously disadvantaged by desert and arid land have the potential to become the main suppliers of solar energy.

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