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Monday, November 2, 2009

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Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:09 AM

The ambiguity in all of this?

A $400bn (£240bn) plan to provide Europe with solar power from the Sahara moved a step closer to reality today with the formation of a consortium of 12 companies to carry out the work.

The Desertec Industrial Initiative (DII) aims to provide 15% of Europe's electricity by 2050 or earlier via power lines stretching across the desert and Mediterranean sea.

The German-led consortium was brought together by Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, and consists of some of country's biggest engineering and power companies, including Siemens, E.ON, ABB and Deutsche Bank.

It now believes the DII can deliver solar power to Europe as early as 2015.

Raw energy, and not energy in the form of human bodies, brown and black human bodies, will freely flow to the north.

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Charles, I think what you meant to say is that the Europeans are always stealing resources from the Africans as in the case here. They just love stealing Nature's gifts to the Motherland whether it be humans, diamonds, oil, seafood, mineral sources, or the power of the sun.

Posted by apres_moi on November 2, 2009 at 8:29 AM

Um, yes. Also raw energy in the form of oil and gas will not flow, as much, from Saudi Arabia, Russia, etc. Form lands that are brown and white. Nor from Norway, another land that is, um, white. And not as much from Iran and the Saaudis, lands which nationalized their oil fields and since have gotten rich, brown people getting rich off the white consumers.

This technological innovation coming from Europe is what is called globalization, too. It's a very positive thing at times. Of course since the concept of globalization arises from the fact that we live on a, um, a globe, you know, and since it encompasses all of human history, it tends to have positive and negative effects, morality-wise, don'tcha know.

But this story shows the continued evolution of technology which is truly mankind's distinctive trait (the ever progressing development of it; of courswe animals have it too, they are just static though), which leads to higher standards of living and in this case hopefully helps with that whole climate change thing.

Note the role of finanz kapital also.

Gee whillikers, something is both good and bad at the same time, mind blowing eh?

Posted by Fan Non on November 2, 2009 at 8:32 AM

did i not call an ambiguity? I think i called it that.

Posted by Charles Mudede on November 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM

if you're going to worry about arabia, worry about yemen and the way they're fucking themselves with overpopulation and qat trees. they're going to be everyone's problem soon.

Posted by Max Solomon on November 2, 2009 at 9:12 AM

Charles, you should read a book called 'Pygmy'. The fourth grade Stalinist schtick. Chuck Palahniuk has you pegged.

Posted by left coast on November 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM