Comment on Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?
solrize@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It’s happening gradually, China now has something like 1TW of solar deployed, a lot of it in deserts. But, that translates to maybe 300GW of base load, because it’s night half of the time (so no solar) and so on. And the other part is battery storage, which is also getting built fast. There is a lot of catching up to do though. And also, transmitting electricity over intercontinental distances isn’t really a thing.