Remundo wrote:the people who reason badly, it is those on the one hand who are surprised (and sneer?) that the Germans fail to keep their CO2 reduction commitment, and on the other hand who block (or villipendent behind a keyboard? ) the key projects to achieve this.
I would not want to be too brittle, but putting mirrors or PV in the desert is not likely to have much impact on the production of cacti and pseudo-breeding of skinny camels ... neocolonialism?
Why go looking for energy elsewhere when there is enough energy here?
Desertec is the typical case of a monopolistic project which corresponds to a phase of globalization even more advanced than that which we are currently going through, ie the fusion of state super-blocks (like the EU / Maghreb Block).
If from the engineering point of view the device is valid (there is indeed no unsurpassable technical problem in such a project) geo strategically it is not feasible: there is no Magrebian state block and again less sub-Saharan, the trend is even the opposite.
Therefore there is far too great a socio-economic disparity between Europe and Africa for such a project to exist.
To build
Desertec would mean maintaining our energy dissipation level and therefore contributing to maintaining the North / South imbalance ... a shame *!
Perhaps true neocolonialism will be a migratory wave (tsunami?) If the populations in their country of origin are not stabilized by a minimum of co-development.
Co-development is globally a dubious concept insofar as it is carried out according to a logic "
to lend to make", by encouraging emerging countries to copy / paste our modes of production based on mismanagement ... how in such a case imagined a happy ecological end to all this in the event of its realization?
What is more, the time that this "industrial leveling up" would require is now over ... it is therefore strictly the reverse that must be achieved: to reduce our lifestyles in our country by rebalancing by renouncing ... But again, it is too late, such a shift should have taken place in the 90s / 2000s, it is now a strong recession that we will have to endure with all the disappointments specific to the entropy accumulated over decades (terrorism, migratory flow, "humanitarian war") ...
* Do not dream Désertec would mainly serve European interests.
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.