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When All Else Fails

April 22, 2013 – Climate change is forcing new international partnerships.   It’s funny, when we’ve run out of choices and find that the only option left is getting along, we not only do so - we find it works to everybody’s benefit.   While the first example might seem to be simply a business arrangement, I would argue there’s far more than money to be gained.   Chances are you’ve heard at least mutterings about the possibility of solar arrays being established in North Africa so that the resulting electricity can be sold, in part, to Europe.   In fact, European investors have gotten well past the muttering stage.   So have the North African countries interested in bringing their populations into the 21 st century.   Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia enjoy endless sunshine. It could ultimately reward them and their European backers with endless electricity.   Morocco and Tunisia are in the process of building plants, and Morocco o...