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Maybe, just maybe, if we filled the entirety of Northern Africa with solar farms and somehow found a way to prevent them all getting covered in sand, damaged by
by synicalx 10y ago
Maybe, just maybe, if we filled the entirety of Northern Africa with solar farms and somehow found a way to prevent them all getting covered in sand, damaged by animals, crapped on by animals, stolen, shot at, sabotaged, and used as both a shelter and cooking utensil - we might be able to provide Sicily with a few hours of power each day. Great success!
- maverick_iceman 10y agoThis will most likely have unintended negative effects.
- stubish 10y agoI think you are severely underestimating just how big the deserts in Northern Africa are. You could power the world with a fraction of it if we had power storage and transmission tech. We could power Europe with todays tech. But yes, it involves a lot of engineering and logistics work, like any power generation of that magnitude. But the real problems are economics and maybe political. Does it make economic sense, and are countries comfortable relying on power from foreign nations?
- synicalx 10y agoI was being a little facetious there, there's probably enough vacant space in Northern Africa to power a bit more than Sicily. But I think you've hit the nail on the head there - why would anyone want to spend a disproportionate amount of money to get power from another country?