Friday, August 31, 2018

The World’s Largest Solar Farm Rises in the Remote Egyptian Desert

By: Rachel Scheier   In 1913 on the outskirts of Cairo, an inventor from Philadelphia named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, using the abundant Egyptian sunshine to pump 6,000 gallons of water a minute from the Nile to irrigate a nearby cotton field. World War I and the discovery of cheap oil […]


from THE GREEN ENERGY BLOG http://thegreenenergyblog.com/uncategorized/the-worlds-largest-solar-farm-rises-in-the-remote-egyptian-desert

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