https://spectrum.ieee.org/underwater-power-cable
"At first glance, North Devon, an expanse of rolling hills and gentle seaside
cliffs deep in the English countryside, may not seem like a place to find the
future.
But if a company called Xlinks can realize its plan, North Devon will be a
conduit for one of the most ambitious renewable-energy dreams to date. By 2029,
Xlinks hopes, the North Devon coastline will host the landing site for two
electric cables providing as much as 8 percent of the United Kingdom’s
electricity needs. At the other end of those cables, there will be a vast
complex of yet-unbuilt solar panels and wind turbines in the Moroccan desert
thousands of miles away.
This is the goal of Xlinks’s Morocco-U.K. Power Project. If successful, the
project may be a model for an entirely new global grid in which long-distance
cables carry clean electricity between continents. But Xlinks and its backers
must overcome a significant gauntlet of political, logistical, and financial
hurdles before their their own project can switch on, let alone inspire others.
“It seems to me that the level of seriousness of these projects is certainly
increasing,” says Will Todman, deputy director and senior fellow in the Middle
East Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in
Washington, D.C. “But I don’t think they have truly been proven yet.”"
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://futurecrunch.com/good-news-indigenous-rights-ecuador-deforestation-amazon-hiv-south-africa/>
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
