the solar thermal market in egypt 1 present situation and future prospects total area of is about 000 km2 over 94 this desert 1993 population was 56 inhabitabts with an increasing rate 2 4 per year 55 living rural areas s development plans require intensive programmes land reclamation food production industrialisation community primary energy requirement has drastically increased during 1980 expected to exceed country resources before end century consumption 35 mtoe reach 54 by 2005 main are oil natural gas hydropower coal biomass pattern use 47 for industry 29 transport 20 buildings agriculture other sectors technologies proved be acceptable can applied on a reasonable scale water heaters have been produced locally since early annual around square metres 180
