my innovation journey starts inland, south of morocco s major cities and mighty atlas mountains, just north of the sahara desert, near the quiet outpost of ouarzazate. this part of saharan morocco is known as the door of the desert. the landscape out here, it s almost like it s from another world. feels like we could be on mars. these plains receive three times the sun as parts of northern europe. ..and are home to a world leading project of staggering scale. this is noor, a solar power station, putting morocco at the forefront of pioneering renewable technology. i m used to feeling small, but this makes me feel even smaller. hello, abed, salam. hello, my friend, salam. nice to meet you. nice to meet you, too. this is incredible! and lots of sun. lots of sun, yeah. which is what we want for something like this. yeah. this is not an ordinary solarfield. panels with over 7,000 mirrors follow the sun. and i can hear lots of sounds at the moment. it s quite eerie. is that the pan
Passions tech and travel. this time, i m in morocco, visiting often unseen parts of the country and world leading projects, tackling global problems. a lot of small boxes! it can move freely, up and down. 0oh! i ll be visiting the largest concentrated solar power plant on earth. i ve never seen anything quite like it. samir, hello. salem alaykum. ..discovering how morocco s world famous cuisine is being grown against the odds. that was not a bit of dust, that was a lot of dust! ..and meeting the start ups building the worlds of tomorrow. can you actually make me look better than i do there? yeah, promise. this is tecthlore morocco.