ON DRY LAND
Huge solar power plants conquer the deserts
ajor solar parks have already seen the light of day in desert regions of China, India, Egypt, and elsewhere. But the most ambitious project of all has shown that there’s more to success than acreage. The Sun Cable company, which planned to build a solar plant in northern Australia, sending power through 4200km-long cables to Singapore, went into voluntary administration earlier this year when some involved began to doubt
