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Solar panels in Sahara could boost renewable energy but damage the climate
- joegibbs 6y agoBit of an exaggeration in the title: the article talks about feedback loops from covering 20% of the Sahara in solar panels - for reference thats 1,840,000 square kilometres, twice the size of Texas. A 1 km2 solar plant costs about $400 million US, making the total cost of a solar plant that large $736 trillion, almost 10x the world GDP.