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November 9, 2008

Solar PoweRING the Mediterranean

Engineers working in the teeming cities and lonely deserts of North Africa are creating the last links in a power grid that will ring the Mediterranean Sea. Sharing electricity over this 'Mediterranean Ring' could secure Europe's power supply with clean renewable energy, accelerating North Africa's development and knitting together two worlds that seem to be racing apart - those of Muslim North Africa and an increasingly xenophobic Europe.

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Posted by mramsey at November 9, 2008 2:49 PM