Remundo wrote:
The poor Tuaregs ... Cover less than 4% of the Sahara, they should have enough space without even seeing the facilities behind a dune ... Now DESERTEC or not, if they preferred to make their camel die of thirst in the middle of the desert, they can continue to do so with the utmost respect for their traditions ... But desalinated water, greenhouse agriculture, energy for drinking water, setting up schools and developing their own country, that should be considered, right?
Me, I do not give a red card, I play the sun card in the broad sense. Who will take it, when the barrel will be at $ 300 in 3 or 4 years and gasoline at 3 Euros in France: idea:
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1) What I reacted against is the 1st idea written in the 1st message. We were in a debate about OUR energy issues, and someone wrote something like, "... and they didn't even talk (on the show) about covering some of the deserts, the problem was solved ... ". Here. That's what I reacted to. OUR problems. And a simple solution: yaka put signs in the desert ...
2) And only against that!
3) That the Tuaregs (I like them, it is true), can choose for themselves a development model using solar energy, why not? No complaints. Whether they choose irrigation, therefore agriculture, therefore settle down, why not if that is their choice? ...
That a chef decides to cover a corner as large as the square in the picture and sell us, even at a good price, this electricity, I am not hot. He would be a solar "mogul" and I am not sure that he would be representative of everyone's aspiration ... A sort of solar Omar BONGO, if you know what I mean. Or Mobutu of renewable energies (well, he's dead).
That we encourage him to do it because it fixes our problems, I get stuck. I say it again.
3 ° That we cover OUR "dead surfaces" (factory roofs, supermarkets, gymnasiums) with solar panels, I am for. It won't be any more ugly. I participate in the piloting of a project including the cover of an agricultural hangar (more modest than that of Westphal seen in the show) and the installation of a biogas station ... So nothing against solar (even if Janco ...).
4) For the rest, it's "cat". Neocolonialism, as already written, looks like globalization, it is more difficult to define.
Far from me the idea that the Tuaregs, they have only to remain "poor Touareg". I recall: 12 years spent in Africa "trying to do something", including 4 years of full volunteering, without status, without remuneration, without contribution for my retirement ....
But just as far from me the idea that this necessarily goes through our technologies. I have respect for the camels. Remarkable "energy machine". A little water, some brush and miles in the desert. Toyota is ridiculous next to it (question of energy efficiency AND "renewable"). As much as for "our" solar panels. Development is a little more complicated than tackling a model, especially if it's our own ...
So not to talk about the energy problem, I find "neocolonisalist" (even if the term is abusive) the fact of thinking that with our technologies, we will solve the problems of the poor ...
