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AKE: Arbeitskreis Energie

AKE 12: Solarenergie im Sonnengürtel

AKE 12.1: Hauptvortrag

Mittwoch, 16. März 2011, 17:30–18:00, BEY 118

Clean Power from Deserts - The DESERTEC Academic Initiative — •Michael Düren — II. Phys. Inst., Univ. Giessen

The DESERTEC concept is simple and convincing: The abundance of solar radiation in the deserts of our planet exceeds by far the global energy demand. Using concentrating solar power plants with thermal storage, solar energy can be made available 24 h a day and can be used as a base load and to average out the fluctuations of other renewable energy sources like wind power. A large scale high voltage DC grid is required which connects the distributed sources of renewable energy with the distributed consumers on a scale of several thousand kilometres. Many large countries have their own deserts like USA, China, Australia and many others. A DESERTEC project as a joint venture of European and MENA (Middle East & North Africa) countries faces many political and legal challenges. However, the prospects of such a project for Europe are high. Not only electricity desalinated water and a lot of jobs will be generated, but more important such a project reduces the economical north-south gradient and generates a peace keeping political and economic interconnection between the EU and MENA. The DESERTEC Industrial Initiative (DII GmbH) was founded in 2009 to create a roll out plan for a possible European - MENA future project on a financial scale of about 400 billion Euros. A DESERTEC University Network was founded in 2010. An Academic Initiative is required to examine the options, prerequisites and implications of the DESERTEC concept from an interdisciplinary scientific point of view.