In a world exhausted of fossil fuels, solar panels can provide a sustainable solution to our energy problems. But they also come with a couple of issues: for one, solar farms are massive, and they have to be set up somewhere that gets a lot of sunlight.
Now, if only we had a large mass of unused land that gets guaranteed sunlight everyday… Could we cover an entire desert in solar panels? Would that be enough to power the entire world? What kind of problems could we run into?
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Awesome thought
Africa have so much potential
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What if everyone used solar panels
What If fear never exist?
how would more sun be absorbed into the ground if the panels would be blocking the sun from reaching it? Why not less?
There have been mant inventions that gave free energy. Sadly all have been confiscated by governments. I wonder why?………
Solar energy is a step backwards.. nuclear energy is insanely more powerful and its getting safer and safer year after year..
Morocco is stable and the project "NOUR" is going forward and people of Morocco don't mind to export energy if the little villages around got some.
Also solar panels dont work in the to hot areas They work Best in 20-25 degrees celsius
but life in there has adapted for centuries to those particular conditions, that drastic change caused to the sahara's enviroment will probably cause some serious ecological issues and possibly the extinction of many species
It will be covered by sand that's it
African politicians are just too corrupt. What you stated is facts bro
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Shit we can't uncover the runes of africa
0:53 WTH are they doing?
We could produce hydrogen and contribute that to local hydrogen power plants
Put them in thar dessert India a nd we able to supply electricity east to west
no existen recursos para transportar esa energia. no para crear todos esos paneles solares.
nos acabariamos el aluminio y acero del mundo…
el unico futuro es consumir menos energia. y como hacemos eso?. fabricando cosas que duren y se puedan reparar. si las cosas duraran 3 veces mas nos ahorrariamos la mitad de la energia del planeta..
Who's reading the comments while watching the video…
Yeah in Australia it could be feasible. You'd have to put those giant batteries from Tesla along the way, too. You would have to make it like a mesh or web as well, so no country would raise the prices on their land and mess up the distribution.
What if we plant trees on Mars first