. . . 24 degree. I´m standing on one of the numerous hills between Almeria and Malaga. Ten years after I visited Andalusia and especially the XXVI Expo Agro-Almeria, a business fair about agriculture and innovation in the mediterranean area, I come back to see how these projects will have developed into reality.
The region changed a lot during the last 10 year. Nearly as much as in the 15 years before, when the area had become a huge greenhouse.
They are still facing the same problems: being one of the hottest and most rainless areas in Europe.
The landscape is dominated by colonies of wind turbines, even Don Quixote would have capitulated. Unfortunately the solar cell project still isn´t really running. They could do so much more about it, having over 3000 hours of sun a year.
10 years ago I was here for holiday, now I´m here for business. I´m working for an E.U. supportet project, which was founded in 2015 to built up an entire European renewable energy system. I like this job a lot, because I can travel a lot and improve the environment by doing my job.
I´m totally lost in thought, when my mobile phone is ringing. It´s Alchemy, who tells me about the food crisis in Japan. Almost exactly ten years after the big tsunami and the following tragedy of F**ushima the Asian country is confronted again with a menacing danger. "Definitely not the best start in this century" I´m thinking.
"But when we are able to let tomatos grow in the only desert in Europe, we will also be able to manage this problem . . . ."
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