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While India has to sacrifice arable land that can be used in a lot of different ways to build a solar plant, Morocco has only gains from such projects.
by sslnx 11y ago
While India has to sacrifice arable land that can be used in a lot of different ways to build a solar plant, Morocco has only gains from such projects.
- jerven 11y agoIndia also has some desert area. e.g. thar desert on the border with Pakistan. This could be used to power e.g. New Delhi
- skbohra123 11y agoIndia also have a large desert area in the state of Rajasthan and most of the the solar projects have been installed in that area only.
- FlyingSnake 11y ago...which is the largest state in India and is mostly arid/desert.
- ganwar 11y agoThis is factually incorrect. The reason that solar power projects have been executed without any major controversy (otherwise all so visible in India in relation to any big project) has mainly been possible because India has a huge chunk of arid/non-arable land in the West and center of India. All of the major solar project so far and all of the planned one's have come up in these areas.
- oska 11y agoIndia has also been experimenting [1] with putting solar panels over the (extensive system of) canals in the state of Gujarat. The panels provide the added benefit of reducing the rate of evaporation from the open canals. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Solar_Power_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Solar_Power_Project
- oh_sigh 11y agoBuilding solar in the Thar desert doesn't need to sacrifice arable land.