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
So you want us to switch out oil sheiks for solar sheiks?
No thank's Europe need's energy independence and it shall come from our vast Wind and wave potential.
The british isles alone have enough that if harnesed with curent wind turbine technology could cover have the continents electricity needs.
And waver farms can be built of France's atlantic coast.
Finally Norway has enough thorium to cover our baseload need's through safe and secure Nuclear Thorium.
Beyond that there's the enourmes geothermal potential of Spain, Italy and various countries in the Balkans.
Not to mention Russias hydropotential.
What if we use all ofs Europe's army and do a sweep across Africa and have it governed by a type of EU energy group and get big companies to pay their taxes which they haven't sent
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No one gonna let you do it. Because you're going to destroy a Trillion Dollar business
Acc the largest desert is the Antarctica
You would spend most of the time cleaning the sand off the panels.
WHAT IF WE PLANTED TREES ON SAHARA DESERT? WHAT IF WE TERRAFORM SAHARA DESERT INTO A FOREST?
Humans won't do this their only mind is on money
So why we dont just put some black cover on Sahara it self? If the fact about weather is correct…
There’s not a single video. Of what if that has a positive outcome
what if the whole world just worked together instead of against each other 🤦🏽♀️
Uh, they would be covered in sand. Duh
In nxt 3 years it becomes reality as energy storage devices size of wrist watches capable of powering a home for a month will become reality.
What if monkeys flew out of my ass? With machine guns?
Deserts are also important for survival. Deserts provide mineral to seas and oceans and other fertile lands all over the world.
No offense, but out of all the things we were able to do as humans such as going to the moon, building cars, flying planes, war bombs, satellites, the great wall of China, the three gorges dam, etc. THIS sounds like a small scale idea to do that we should be able to implement.
so we could pretty much save the earth, but the only thing stopping it is- us?? what stupid species are humans
1.2% of sahara solar will power the entire world..are u joking..means AC in every household of hot countries..electric buses rickshawa cars..more greener world..less global warming..means heaven on Earth
India has already a jaint desirt 🏜️ we should first start there. Everything is fine in indai.100% safe and secure country for investors
India has already a jaint desirt 🏜️ we should first start there. Everything is fine in indai.100% safe and secure country for investors
India has already a jaint desirt 🏜️ we should first start there. Everything is fine in indai.100% safe and secure country for investors