How Sahara Contribute to Sustainable Energy Production? Sustainable development of Sahara countries, energy export and desert cultivation & repopulation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24084/repqj11.325Keywords:
Photovoltaic, solar, energy, Sustainable development, Sahara, sandAbstract
In the first party of this article, a particular attention is being given to first the Sahara in terms of solar potential capability in that it could capture enough solar energy to meet the entire world's electricity needs, secondto its possibility of attracting inhabitant for accessing to a good quality life, agriculture and energy infrastructure. This article also concerns the multidisciplinary project of developing and realising reference PV energy powered village in the Sahara of Algeria that would bridge the research and on site experiences. The project will be initiated on the same model of a huge laboratory regrouping several university researchers and research centres throughout Algeria. This will help training the population for using advance techniques that would help them in organising their new life. The project will also provide a research platform to demonstrate and optimize environmental technologies to enable restorative growth in desert areas in the Sahara and around the world. Crucial objectives are targeted at substantially increasing and enhancing the contribution of solar energy and favouring energy and food self-sufficiency. This pilot project implemented in the Sahara justifies the possibility to accelerate the use of indigenous solar energy resource, particularly for electricity supply, agriculture, architecture, civil and hydraulic engineering, biology...and the possibility of developing small businesses in areas of low economic development.