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What If the Sahara Desert Was Covered With Solar Panels?

07/03/2021 09:46 PM | Click to read full article

 

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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