Negev building solar energy plants in the Negev. As director of Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center, he operates one of the largest solar dishes in the world. Technically, however, the Arava is a separate desert with its own unique climate and ecology. A 250 MW solar park in Ashalim, an area in the northern Negev, was in the planning stages for over five years, but it is not expected to produce power before 2013. In 2008 construction began on three solar power plants near the city; two thermal and one photovoltaic. The Rotem Industrial Complex outside of Dimona, Israel, has dozens
Desert of the Heart of minor figures that the reader is apt to have little empathy with anyone." One reviewer cautioned potential readers that despite the lack of sensationalism, ""The Desert of the Heart" is not recommended to those who find sexual perversion an uncomfortable subject." "Desert of the Heart" was highly recommended by Gene Damon in "The Ladder", who called it "a symbolic delight." Rule remembered the mail she got from women who read the book. "I got a huge amount of fan mail which I didn't expect. I thought movie stars got fan mail. People were writing things like you are the