About Desert Energy Project

Desert Energy Project is a non-profit organisation, receives no funding,  and is not connected to any other organisations. It aims to develop solar energy for tiny local starts and connect them to transregional grids and evolve the system to global dimension using hydrogen as energy storage and as fuel for transportation. 

 
The mission
The Mission is to solve the deadlock of global energy starting with photovoltaic as feasible small scalable systems. The main target is to provide the technology to generate energy for very small communities and develop the system to a global grid, solving the energy problem for the next generation.

The tiny start
Photovoltaic arrays are the best solution for tiny starts in villages or small communities at poor regions of the desert areas.

The small initial investment is affordable for small budgets
Solar energy using photovoltaic arrays can start at very small communities it produces direct current which can be store in batteries, charge phone cells or car batteries. Desalination of sea water or brackish water, operation of water pumps can alleviate the effects of drought. Surplus energy can be used for the production of hydrogen as fuel for transportation.

Integrating regional activities in a transregional grid

First phase: Solar energy is produce at communal level

Second phase: The system is connected to the transregional grid. Revenue will be generated for the development of the economy of desert regions.

Other technologies
Other technologies present serious disadvantages for a start. Wind turbines, solar parabolic troughs, Integrated Solar Combined Cycle (ISCC), or concentrating solar power may be included in the system when time is ripe. However such very costly, not scalable power plants,  involving high temperatures, steam turbines and  salt tanks as energy storage are unaffordable for small villages in Africa or India.
The Desertec Industrial is based on solar thermal systems with a planed cost of 400 billions Euro is such an inflexible project. Due to the enormous initial costs Desertec will remain stalled and is not suitable as a start of small communities.

Political and mental work
There is a lot of work to direct politics toward a sustainable energy economy and change the consumer mentality which looks to the cheapest solution, disregarding environmental costs and decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants.

The political vision of the global energy of the next generations
Governments of countries which have a more centralised decision power, such as Kuwait or even China are better predestinated to introduce solar energy and wind turbines.