-> To have power during the night, you need a technology to store the warmth fo 
-> electricity production during the night using that warmth ... we're talking 
-> massive storage of warmth ... 
  
The strange thing about the Egyptian desert is that in many areas there 
is abundant water. Lakes exist among the sand-dunes! It's a geological 
rift zone, with depressions that go down below sea lavel. A few million 
years ago, there were active volcanoes. There are still plenty of 
springs, many of them hot. 
  
So there's abundant sunshine and enough water to form the basis for an 
large hydrogen-producing industry. Sure, the sun shines only during the 
day, but hydrogen can easily be stored, distributed by pipes, and 
exported. The Icelanders are doing this with hydrogen they make using 
geothermal and hydro-electric energy. The Egyptians (and others) could 
do the same with solar energy. 
  
But Egypt is ruled by a man who is nearly 80, and who has been in power 
for more than 25 years. The government is massively corrupt, and lacks 
the will to do anything except stay in power. Huge military spending 
consumes most of the budget. Imaginative schemes that could greatly 
improve the country exist, but are left uncompleted because of lack of 
money. Developing solar power would be relatively cheap compared with 
digging a canal through the western desert from Lake Nasser to the 
Mediterranean, effectively making a second Nile river. This scheme has 
been started, but is currently abandoned, the canal partly dug. If the 
resources that were spant on it had been spent on solar energy instead, 
Egypt would be rich in energy. 
  
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