China’s MASSIVE Desert Project Is About To Change The World

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China’s MASSIVE Desert Project Is About To Change The World​

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China’s MASSIVE Desert Project Is About To Change The World. This is the biggest solar power plant in the United States, located in Kern, California. The Solar Star Plant is over 8 square miles and has a generation capacity of 579 megawatts, powering around 255,000 homes. This is impressive, but about 6,500 miles away, in this remote desert, there's a solar facility that could dwarf it and just about every other solar power plant on Earth.

 

[mulj]

Cool, now lets do north africa and west central asia.

 

[VCheng]

Cool, now lets do north africa and west central asia.

About half of the area of the Sahara could produce enough electricity for the world. Such is the abundance of solar energy available there. It is the logistics that represent the problem.

 

[Developereo]

Cool, now lets do north africa and west central asia.

It's been discussed for a while but there are, er, challenges...

Can We Cover The Sahara Desert With Solar Panels?

The desert has abundant supply of sunlight. This makes it an ideal place to build a solar power plant. But, these plants can have negative impact on the environment.

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If 1.2% of the desert—around 110,000 square kilometers—is covered with solar panels, it would be enough to satisfy the entire world’s energy needs.

 

[mulj]

It's been discussed for a while but there are, er, challenges...

only geopolitical ones, technicalities are minor problem beside fact that the arabs would become once again most important energy provider in the world.