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Develop Solar Energy for Economic Growth

It is believed that in just six hours, world's Desert receive more energy from the Sun than human consume in a year. For example, take an area of the size of Indian state of reasonable size in the Sahara desert and fill it with solar panels and you could power the whole of India, rather some surplus may remain. The move to clean renewable energy is very important when fighting climate change. By using natural resources such as the Sun, wind and tides, energy can be created without any pollution. Presently, we use lot of oil, Gas and coal to power our country, but there are several large solar projects such as in Africa, Europe etc. underway working to harness the power of the desert Sun. The Sahara is the largest hot desert on Earth (some deserts are cold like Gobi desert in Asia) and can reach temperature of 50 Degree Centigrade. There are few problems to solve first such as how to stop sand causing damage to the solar panels. Cleaning them daily uses up a lot of water - some