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DESERT 100 MEGAWATTS PER SQUARE KILOMETRE. HOW CAN WE MOVE IT TO THE UK ??

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Solar panels are quite inefficient as the radiation shining on the earth surface is over 1 kW per square metre but we will be lucky at midday to manage to capture 100 Watts.  But yet this is a really large amount of energy if we had say a square kilometre of panels.  I calculate it to be 100 MWatts at peak.  Recently I was Chile in the Atacama desert and took attached photo thumbnail?appId=YMailNorrin&downloadWhen


Now there are power lines there but we only saw one block of solar panels during our 1000 km trip.   There is no vegetation for animals to eat and no water for trees so the land is just barren a useless waste of space but if used to collect energy a miraculous godsend.  Putting solar panels up in England is wasteful of land that can be used for agriculture and anyway we do not receive the full desert heat that the Sahara can supply.

What if UK were to purchase 10km by 10km or 100 square kilometres of desert which at peak gives 10 gigaWatts of power nearly a quarter of our power needs but how to transmit it is a problem that needs solving unless we do a deal with Gibraltar/Spain sort of import/export deal?.
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    It's for national populations to choose their leadership and governments, not have them imposed on them by external forces.


    However, international leadership and diplomatic pressure and incentives, international trade, and responsible corporate leverage, nudges, and contract conditions, rather than BAU 'smash and grab easy profits and rewards for the few' corporate tactics, enforcement of anti-bribery, anti-corruption, and responsible and ethical business practices can assist in helping developing nations transform into responsible governance structures. If w answer the 'what's in it for me' question, then perhaps behaviours will change for the better for developing nation governments and their populations - a safe, fairly treated, content and self-fulfilling population isn't likely to react negatively against its government or migrate.


    Those with clean energy assets and resources to assist in national development and responsible socio-economic and technical development that benefits both us and them have much potential. We should use sustainable and responsible procurement to generate triple bottom line (people, profit, planet) benefits for all.


    We help nations exploit their clean energy resources to develop their countries and bring benefit to their wider population, but it needs to be done responsibly and not in a 'lining the elite's pockets' way. Will be difficult, but is necessary and possible I believe.

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/serious-about-sustainability-get-serious-about-corruption/ 


    Perhaps brining together UK's FCO, DFID and overseas business and economic/export departments would assist in this via a 'joined up' government and business focus and strategy to use diplomatic, business and development levers in a coherent and coordinated manner to use UK's 'soft power' influence for change for the good in target countries? Each target country will need its own fine-tuned strategy and coordinated plan, and ideally international coordination and cooperation.


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    It's for national populations to choose their leadership and governments, not have them imposed on them by external forces.


    However, international leadership and diplomatic pressure and incentives, international trade, and responsible corporate leverage, nudges, and contract conditions, rather than BAU 'smash and grab easy profits and rewards for the few' corporate tactics, enforcement of anti-bribery, anti-corruption, and responsible and ethical business practices can assist in helping developing nations transform into responsible governance structures. If w answer the 'what's in it for me' question, then perhaps behaviours will change for the better for developing nation governments and their populations - a safe, fairly treated, content and self-fulfilling population isn't likely to react negatively against its government or migrate.


    Those with clean energy assets and resources to assist in national development and responsible socio-economic and technical development that benefits both us and them have much potential. We should use sustainable and responsible procurement to generate triple bottom line (people, profit, planet) benefits for all.


    We help nations exploit their clean energy resources to develop their countries and bring benefit to their wider population, but it needs to be done responsibly and not in a 'lining the elite's pockets' way. Will be difficult, but is necessary and possible I believe.

    https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/serious-about-sustainability-get-serious-about-corruption/ 


    Perhaps brining together UK's FCO, DFID and overseas business and economic/export departments would assist in this via a 'joined up' government and business focus and strategy to use diplomatic, business and development levers in a coherent and coordinated manner to use UK's 'soft power' influence for change for the good in target countries? Each target country will need its own fine-tuned strategy and coordinated plan, and ideally international coordination and cooperation.


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