Why the Sahara Is Not the Giant Solar Power Plant Everyone Imagines?

Why the Sahara Is Not the Giant Solar Power Plant Everyone Imagines

The pitch sounds almost too good to be true. The Sahara Desert receives more solar energy than any other place on Earth. It covers roughly nine million square kilometres of largely uninhabited land. Cover even a fraction of it in solar panels, the argument goes, and you could power the entire world many times over. … Read more