Solar solution to our energy needs

DEDICATING just 1.8% of the total land area of Ireland to solar technology could satisfy all the country’s energy needs.
Solar solution to our energy needs

That’s according to Dr Mazhar Bari, chief executive of Solar Print, who will be speaking at an Engineers Ireland seminar, Ireland’s future energy projects, at 9am on Tuesday.

Dr Bari also said that use of just six selected areas on the Earth’s surface could produce 18 Terrawatts, enough to meet the energy needs of the whole of the world’s population.

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