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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?
59·2 months agoSome reasons to be discouraged making a solar farm in a desert:
- Middle of nowhere, you need to transport all the hardware to the place
- Maintanace, you need people on-site to support it
- Desert sand is sandbladting your panels
- (and this is the biggest one I think). You need to transport the power from where its generated to where is requested. Which is an imperfect proces, and every time you double the distance you also double the resistance


I checked the first 4 numbers, seems fine to me. Push to production