People have known for many years that the desert is a useful place to produce solar energy. In 1986, the German scientist Gerhard Knies said that the world’s deserts receive enough energy in a few hours to make power for all the people in the world for a whole year. But the challenge is to capture that energy and take it to where it is needed. Experts say that solar energy will make up a third of Morocco’s renewable energy supply by 2020. Wind and hydro will make up the other two-thirds. “We are very proud of this project,” Morocco’s environment minister, Hakima el-Haite said. “I think it is the most important solar plant in the world.”
What did Gerhard Knies say?
The entire world can be powered for a year with only a few hours of desert energy The world can supply a year-worth of energy to the desert within a few hours Solar energy will make up a third of Morocco’s renewable energy supply by 2020 The planet will run out of energy resources sooner than people believe