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[1] https://globalsolaratlas.info/map?c=42.779275,-37.617188,4
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Electricity_production,_consumption_and_market_overview
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/280704/world-power-consumption/
[4] https://energypost.eu/10000-sq-km-of-solar-in-the-sahara-could-provide-all-the-worlds-energy-needs/
[5] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/02/20/spains-third-interconnection-with-morocco-could-be-europes-chance-for-african-pv-or-a-boost-for-coal/
[6] http://climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Hirschhausen-et-al_The-Economics-of-DESERTEC.pdf
[7] https://www.eia.gov/analysis/studies/electricity/hvdctransmission/pdf/transmission.pdf
[8] https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Engineering/Courses/ENGN1931F/HVDC_Proven_TechnologySiemens.pdf
[9] https://iea-etsap.org/E-TechDS/PDF/E12_el-t&d_KV_Apr2014_GSOK.pdf
[10]
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350846283_Impact_study_of_NOOR_1_project_on_the_Moroccan_territorial_economic_development
[11] https://www.reutersevents.com/renewables/csp-today/technology/towers-versus-troughs#:~:text=LPT%20550’s%20solar%2Dto%2Dsteam,steam%2C%20according%20to%20the%20company.&text=Storage%20is%20another%20key%20advantage%20of%20the%20tower%20technology
[12] https://techstartups.com/2020/11/19/worlds-biggest-solar-energy-project-failure-1-billion-boondoggle-solar-plant-project-became-obsolete-ever-went-online/
[13] https://www.reviewjournal.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-future-of-crescent-dunes-solar-plant-near-tonopah-appears-bleak-1866768/
[14] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-06/a-1-billion-solar-plant-was-obsolete-before-it-ever-went-online
[15] https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/ise/en/documents/News/electricity_production_germany_2020.pdf
[16] https://www.afdb.org/fileadmin/uploads/afdb/Documents/Environmental-and-Social-Assessments/Morocco_-_Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station_Project_II_-_ESIA_Summary.pdf
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150 million * 592 is a bit more than 8.9 billion $
Stupid background music spoils the entire video. WHY?
Be great if we could have a huge panel in soave and beamed electric to the earth. Lots of light up there
What about using the solar energy in order to convert water to hydrogen and transport it via pipelines? Would it be cheaper or more efficient?
It's amazing how the colonialiste mentality is deeply implemented in these people's minds, they only think of africa as a solution for the west problems and needs. What about Africa serving Africa? Crazy idea, right?
Interesting how solar energy from Africa should power Europe as though Africa itself doesnt need it?
Bullshit. Many African nations are in turmoil because we rob resources without supporting african societies.
Help Africa to generate its own power
Climate change ?? The Sahara has always been a hot f**king desert so wtf u talking about
Desalination means oil. A lot of oil.
IT DIDNT FAIL, IT NEVER WAS MEANT TO FUNCTION, big energy """shareholders"""" fail to give up greed
So wait. Governments waste billions to trillions a year but can't build solar farms for trillions. Can spend billions on weapons that can end the world tho right….
All of this change to the landscape, and nobody thinks it will affect global temperatures?
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that's nothing. countries can do this immediately. wtf!?
Water is not problem. You can place cool materials to turn it back to water from steam and reuse it. This circle continues.
No oil & gas from Africs to EU .
DW, Morocco with the help of UK are working on this!
Your neo-colonialism slant seems forced. Europe needs electricity and Morocco needs money and jobs. Europe sacrifices independence and Morocco sacrifices water. This is literally how most if not all international trade happens in the modern world. Taiwan uses vast quantities of limited water in semiconductor manufacturing. Are they being exploited because of it?
I did some math back in my uni days (so like a year ago) if you covered the total area of the earth in thermodynamically maximal solar panels you would just meet & exceed the global energy output. The entire premise of the “simple math” is factually incorrect. This also includes wind energy sources (I studied geophysics and earth science)
Why the fuck will you even transmit the energy generated from Africa to Europe?? Why won't Africans use it?
Everything was good until you went all left wing political. That was "problematic".
Why the f@ck should Africa send it solar power to euro when Africans need that power.
ok, so dollars here, dollars there *Idiotic human invention*… MY QUESTION however is resources… With resources alone, how feasible would this be?
Might be strange question, but from my understanding…water solar farms are a bit more efficient, and water desalination dumps brine back into the ocean, why not dispose of brine on top of the dessert and put a solar farm on top of it
3:00 could someone explain me why Mazara Del Vallo (a small town of my land Sicily) is specified in that chart?
"Give food to Africa, but don't give economic independence"
Sankara was right
There is a solar panel developed that transmit sun in to H2. This can transmitted with ships al over the world. Also H2 can provided in nighttime to ensure the power.