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What if the Sahara desert was covered with solar panels?




Hello guys, in this article we will se what will happen if Sahara dessert was covered with solar panels.


In a world exhausted of fossil fuels solar panels can provide a sustainable solutions for our energy problems, but they also come with a couple of issues for one solar farms are massive and they needs to be set-up somewhere that gets a lot of sunlight. This is only possible if we have a large unused  landmass that gets gaurenteed sunlight every day, could we cover an entire desert with solar panels, will that be enough to power entire world. So let's start with topic.
If we cover only 1.2% of the entire Sahara desert with solar panels we can harness enough power to meet the energy needs of the entire world. How can we overcome the financial and political problems and the could this project thoroughly change the deserts climate. Usualy a solar farm is built to prevent changes in the environment but if we build a solar farm in the Sahara desert it would bring changes on its own. If build the solar farm in Sahara it would double the rainfall in the entire region and increase vegetation by about 20%, it's sounds a bit unbelievabe, but let me explain that. Sahara sand is a but light in colour and it reflects a lot of light in the atmosphere. If we cover the sand with dark solar panels it will mean a lots of sunlight will be absorbed resulting in increase in ground level temperatures. Warmer air rises up in the atmosphere where it's cooler and moistured air condenses and rain falls. Solar panels will not only increase our steps towards sustainable development but it will also help our largest deserts with some much needed greenery. So what are we waiting for, shouldn't we must have build these things already.
This will help us to access sustainable energy but the main thing to worry about is how to distribute the energy created to everyone. First of all the energy created would travel to Europe and exporting this sustainable energy will do great for lots of African economy. Transporting power from one place to another leads in around 10% energy losses and an extremely expensive project will become more pricy. Also Africa has most number of unstable governments, so having such a multi billion project in a place like Sahara will post red flags. This would be a long term project so lot of countries would have to put hands together with could lead to political distrupt among some countries leading in big losses.
Probably the way is to attempt the project on small scale first and lighting up some of Africa's villages and to spread the access of electricity.

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