What If the Sahara Desert Was Covered With Solar Panels?

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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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You call it "what if", but its more "why we dont" ...

Eryan
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The world is a cell, and África is its mitochondria

rodrigo
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What If the Sahara Desert Was Covered With Solar Panels?
*The panels would be buried in the sand the next morning*

Nox
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2:14 Energy from Africa. Likely to go to Europe.
story sounds quite familiar.

subulaji
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Put them in Australia, 90% of our population lives along the coastline. Plenty of land

jenna.bartlett
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What if we covered the sun with solar panels.

thunderzagario
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“Hey bob, could you repair solar panel 731AC in row 26 of park 27C”

realboekie
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Can't believe we didn't die in this video

atharv
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It's a great idea. That's why it will never happen.

gregorykrug
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Would you look at that a what if video that doesn’t end in everyone dying

btxjifl
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Design the panels to rotate upsidedown on a night to keep them free of sand 👍

ThatPixelGuy
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"Africa has lot of unstable governments"
China :- that's why I'm here

hemanthnayak
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what if people stop writing " what if " comments .

ginsan
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Im going to assume if we covered the desert in solar panels, the solar panels would be covered in desert

RickSanchez-ggto
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Morocco is already beginnen to plant huge amount of solar city's around the sahara desert.

zakelijk
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You build a Solar Thermal Energy power plant in the Sahara desert. The one that has large reflective solar mirrors to a boiler tower. Not a solar farm with photovoltaic cells.

iMadrid
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Wow, so many negative comments, most of which center around sand storms and the like.


The simple fact that we are (theoretically) covering the Sahara with solar panels would already reduce the impact and frequency of sand storms because the panels themselves would disrupt wind flow. Adding baffle fences around the perimeter and at key locations within the solar farm would further reduce, if not eliminate, the impact of sand storms.


Sand storms are created by a strong wind traveling across the desert. This requires mile upon mile upon mile of empty space that allows the wind to pick up sand as it goes. If you disrupt that wind before it has a chance to pick up all that sand, there is no possibility of a sand storm.

keithcraig
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China is already doing this just saying.

HelamanGile
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I’m just going to say this would cause a war very quickly


Why did you like this I’m just stating facts

southernrailwayfan
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YouTube knows what i was thinking for these years.
I just got answers on the questions i was really interested in just today

hercules