SOLAR POWER
AS OPTIMISTS delight in saying:"When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Ergo, when nature subjects one part of the globe to 3.5 million square miles of sand and unrelenting sunlight, make solar panels. Or so goes the theory behind the Sahara Solar Breeder Project, which has the staggering goal of building enough solar plants in Africa's Sahara Desert to provide half the world's electricity needs by 2050. The key to the joint project between Japanese and Algerian universities is to process the Sanaran silica into the high-quality silicon needed to manufacture photovoltaic panels - which in itself would be a first, since so far the technology to do so doesn't exist. …
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