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- In a world exhausted of fossil fuels, solar panels can provide a sustainable solution to our energy problems. But they also come with a couple of issues: for one, solar farms are massive, and they have to be set up somewhere that gets a lot of sunlight.
Now, if only we had a large mass of unused land that gets guaranteed sunlight everyday… Could we cover an entire desert in solar panels? Would that be enough to power the entire world? What kind of problems could we run into?
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You call it "what if", but its more "why we dont" ...
Why dont we loose oxygen for 5 seconds
Solar panels will degrade efficiency will degrade if the temperature is above 45 degrees celsius, and leaving out in the open like that will not be good due to sandstorm(shading) and contaminants
@@LycanSpyder12 special panels can be designed to withstand the temperature and the weather in general.
It's not a matter of how. It's totally doable. Solar energy has been a thing for a long time, with a significant amount of money invested into the project, it could have been done even 20 years ago.
It's all about political conflicts that make it impossible.
Africa has plenty of resources to become a significant power in the world but their political crisis prevent that from happening.
Basically it is "What if" because he is illustrating what if bla bla while "Why don't we" is a whole different story like "Why don't we lose oxygen"
What if - What will happen to us without oxygen
Why don't we - Why Earth won't lose it's oxygen
Logic fhfjdusiaia
Because the sand will cover them and another thing is that it impossible to cover the desert completely. No one has the money for that
Put them in Australia, 90% of our population lives along the coastline. Plenty of land
And then no distribution to the other continents?
@@AngshumanDas13x yes.
Australia isn't real though ;)
Good idea! But how do we distribute it to the rest of the world?
Australia doesn't exist because the earth is flat
What If the Sahara Desert Was Covered With Solar Panels?
*The panels would be buried in the sand the next morning*
Yup
Wind turbines would clearly be a better option.
Totally agreed 👍
Just checking - your understanding is that there are no areas of the Sahara that are not on a foundation of or at the mercy of soft moving, shifting, wind blown sands?
There is some successful experiment on the sahara of Algeria. Check it
2:14 Energy from Africa. Likely to go to Europe.
story sounds quite familiar.
Why not use most of the power to make liquid hydrogen that can be. Bottled then it can be used anywhere ( heck if you use a fuel cell you get water as well
@@jameshead9119 Nowadays - Low efficiency of electrolysis, liquefaction of hydrogen and fuel cells... Hydrogen is pretty dangerous gas and there are problems with storage of liquid hydrogen. In future it could be possible - it depends on research.
Filip Mečíř I know there’s a problem hydrogen gas making metals brittle and hoped as a liquid not so much what with our use of liquid propane & methane nowadays
I thought the same. Seems like Europe and America aren’t done sucking up every good thing Africa has to offer while the majority of people in the continent continue to live in poverty and deprivation. Please, if such a method for generating electricity were to succeed, African countries should be the ones benefiting and not Europe. I did some research concerning this, and all concerns were about how to get the electricity generated across the Mediterranean to European countries that already have steady power supply. It’s quite sad especially when considering the fact that most, if not all countries just below the region in Subsaharan Africa have millions of people living in homes that have no access to electricity.
Hahaha yea Africa should be stronger to compeed with europe
What if we covered the sun with solar panels.
@@dvlx_a997 then we'll cover the suns with sahara deserts.
No dude we can't
@@disgurstingshat_ r/woosh
Genius!! 👏👏👏😉
Lol 🤣
The world is a cell, and África is its mitochondria
Clever
No...
Africa is the powerhouse of the world
Psychotropical no. That poor country is nothing
Wakanda forever
“Hey bob, could you repair solar panel 731AC in row 26 of park 27C”
You mean Mohammed
The Confused Stoner ah, I forgot to go into details
And...?
anonymous bosch ?
@@The_Confused_Stoner He meant your REAL DAD!!! 😏😏😏
Can't believe we didn't die in this video
Looool
Very few videos where we don't die in whatif videos...
Lol
dont exaggerate like that
It's a great idea. That's why it will never happen.
Morocco did have a major project. Impossible to cover it though
Lol
Fun fact algeria just invested 3.6 billion dollars in a huge solar energy project
RaacheAmine well then go Algeria
RaacheAmine ?
Would you look at that a what if video that doesn’t end in everyone dying
What if humans were immortal?
That is also a what if video!
Design the panels to rotate upsidedown on a night to keep them free of sand 👍
Sahara desert sand has very thin particles, these will stick and will not fall down just by turning the panels upside down, you will have to use compressed air to blow them off. Also sand storms will be a major problem.
"Africa has lot of unstable governments"
China :- that's why I'm here
And who set up those unstable governments. I'll help the USA.
What China is guilty for that?
@@balintkura As a Brit, I'm happy to blame America for Africa's political instability.
@@borivojetravica569 Well no. US blow shits up to get their interest. “ I beat shit out you then sell you the bandages”
China be like” hold on a second, I got tons bandages as well, and I won’t beat shit out you.”
Thank God I am proud that China exists
what if people stop writing " what if " comments .
What will happen, what will be the consequences
But you just did you hypocrite I will call my lord and savior Jesus Christ on your soul!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬
s o i m n lol
What if we stop writing what if the people stop writing what if comments
This comment wouldve never existed
China is already doing this just saying.
We’re talking about sahara here not China
Colgate Toothpaste these solar power instructions in this video are made by China company
Thats racist dude
Yoo JeongYeon's Husband To Be..... You utter moron. That is the most asinine and hypocritical thing I’ve ever heard. Your complaining about racism, and then go on to say “WHITE ASS PEOPLE”. I’m not condoning racism against Asians, or any race for that matter. But you need to understand that racism works both ways. You can’t call out someone for being racist towards one race and then go on to be racist towards another.
@@marksaydie Chinese people are the most racist bunch in Asia. Y'all hate Koreans and Tibetans.
BTW your government doesn't allow you to be on TH-cam. Go back to communism.
Morocco is already beginnen to plant huge amount of solar city's around the sahara desert.
Source?
they shouldn't tho unless they can make for solutions for the locusts
@@81pieda masen google it.
@@badrmoutalib7368 No.
@@81pieda I am moroccan bro and I confirm this since am an eye witness .. a living one 😅 .. that shit is huge
I’m just going to say this would cause a war very quickly
Why did you like this I’m just stating facts
Why
Word Word this would be a huge tarrorist target or it would be a control thing
Word Word power
Alexander Velthuis you get it
Trains and model trains productions a terrorist target doesn’t mean it’ll cause a war. Legit anywhere in the world could be a terrorist target. Terror attacks really don’t happen all too often and what’s to stop them from securing the area around it? There are simple solutions to that issue. This would put an end to global warming and prove way too many benefits to the world. And not just developed countries too.
Im going to assume if we covered the desert in solar panels, the solar panels would be covered in desert
WRONG... it was forest
Kane Jenkins He meant a sand storm that would pile over the panels, making it ineffective
@@albertchuma4313 Of course it can be successful....with massive amounts of manpower. You have to stop a dessert shifting. You also have to keep the panels free from sand blowing loosely over them. We COULD just build nuclear.
@@hrthrhs you can provide opportunities for work to clean the panels
Wouldn't someone have to clean all the panels about every week from the sandstorms?
Love the face that, this channel doesn't beg to subscribe... Everything about this channel is so exciting, from the visuals to the audios, to the thought provoking facts... Keep going,..
Goti's life never noticed that and it’s a nice change in pace considering everyone demands you to subscribe and like everything and comment.
Hope it stays like this tho, dont wanna see them stretching to vid to 10 mins
The facts aren't all true
For example the bit about the moisture is not entirely true due to the Hadley cell.
Beg or simply ask to get into the character?
* puts solar panels in sahara *
Tommorow: no more solar panels because they are 1m under the sand
Or just make a stand?
You do realize most the sahara is not covered in sand right?
@@SviatoslavDamaschin it should be a atleast 6-7m tall
@@peterisawesomeplease ok mister smart guy
@@p3rk4n27 7mt? o.O
You build a Solar Thermal Energy power plant in the Sahara desert. The one that has large reflective solar mirrors to a boiler tower. Not a solar farm with photovoltaic cells.
Wow, so many negative comments, most of which center around sand storms and the like.
The simple fact that we are (theoretically) covering the Sahara with solar panels would already reduce the impact and frequency of sand storms because the panels themselves would disrupt wind flow. Adding baffle fences around the perimeter and at key locations within the solar farm would further reduce, if not eliminate, the impact of sand storms.
Sand storms are created by a strong wind traveling across the desert. This requires mile upon mile upon mile of empty space that allows the wind to pick up sand as it goes. If you disrupt that wind before it has a chance to pick up all that sand, there is no possibility of a sand storm.
To produce that much silicium, maybe we could drain all sahara's sand.
This video makes no sense, we don't have resources to produce that big of a solar farm and it would be extremely polluting to make.
Not to mention as a massive black and light absorbing surface, it could actually warm earth or interfere in climate
Not to mention, solar panel lifespan is rather short, especially in that kind of rough situation.
Not to mention solar panels efficiency decrease as the temperature goes up so putting them into desert isn't a great idea.
Men cannot stop nature nor winds.....man made structures don't really interfere with natural disasters
Get this man a like
@@xanthuumnihyr5319 damn straight..
@@xanthuumnihyr5319 Such lack of imagination. Technology will develop solve all those issues - quicker than you know. The main problem is that there isn't the political will, but there will be when climate change and/or lack of other fuels become inescapable problems
The first what if that i wish would happen!
The first???
Well it's happening.
A 400 billion euros project going by the name of DESERTEC between Germany and 3 north African nations, namely Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia to be implemented this decade. Producing solar electricity in the northern regions of the Sahara and exporting it to Europe by submarine cables the same way natural gas is currently being exported from and through those 3 countries.
Underwater pipelines already run NG through the strait of Gibraltar and between Tunisia and Italian Sicily. Electric cables will be layed on the same routes and connect the saharan solar farms to the European grids.
@@halnineooo136 I haven't heard any update on that project for years, where can I find some recent info?
@@halnineooo136 woohoo my country is involved
edit: I barely hear tunisia getting involved in huge projects like this
@@tebourbi
Tunisian involvement may give it a new ressource for export and also render its gaz share from the Algeria to Italy gozoduc available either for export or internal use for other purposes.
TH-cam knows what i was thinking for these years.
I just got answers on the questions i was really interested in just today
"That could disrupt,or put an end to the whole thing"
*Shows a building fall while playing joyful music*
Cigarettes are good for the environment...
It kills humans
Cigarettes doesnt kill humans, it poisons them
Thats like saying, snakes kills humans
Like burning Biomass is good for the invironment ;-((
Make Hydrogen with solarpower. You can store solarpower in hydrogen. Hydrogen can be transported or storred for later use in planes for instance.
More like diseases rather than cigarettes
S 2 da 685 11.12.11 Lmao 😂 ur smart
As always the bloody oil companies doesn't support this😠
no dumbass it is the African government that is the problem
@@eyyeyeeyeyeuwuhehehdbdvf no give em bribe they will agree also for monitoring ut will provide income they should do it like india india has covered its thar desert with tons of solar panels though that is still not enough to provide the whole country with solar energy u know new connections needs to be made far far away
Like in the 70s or something like that someone created non deadly Cigarettes and got major Pressure from cigarette companies. Always the money
Liselotte Pumeluff and when vapes first came out and big tobacco did the same
You are so dumb and ignorent. Oil companies are aware of the incoming oil shortage. They invest a lot in other sources of energy, as they know one day they will have to switch to not go bankrupt
You missed a crucial point.
The Sahara has sand that provides nutrients for The Amazon rainforest
Sand storms
That was a German idea, I think. One of the technical problems would be sand, that will require constant cleaning of the solar panels from sand. The solar panels loose efficiency drastically if they are not clean, so a robotic compressed air system will be needed (in the absence of water in the area) to clean them constantly, thus raising the cost of the electricity produced. An other problem is the one mentioned, regarding grid loses due to the distances involved. The mentioned climate change will be an other problem. If it starts raining in the Sahara, then the desert will not be a desert for much longer so there will be clouds, meaning good bye uninterrupted sunshine. Finally, some of the comments say that wind turbines might be better. That is not correct since the sand will create serious durability problems to the fins. Imagine those huge fiberglass covered fins to be under constant sandblasting, they will definitely not last the expected 25 years of a wind turbines expected life span. In other parts of the world, wind turbines are prone to fin damage from hale as well, so the cost of electricity rises by the service requirements and much reduced life spans.
The labour costs are very low so they would be able to counter maintenance costs and only 2 % percent of Sahara would be needed not 100% so very little terraforming will occur.
@@webbtz3591 Mr. t rex in your time the CO2 content in the atmosphere was double from the one today and Antarctica was covered by rain forests. 60000 years ago, ice covered areas reached as far south as the Danube. 11000 years ago, Sahara was a rain forest. Now in our time, even if you could take advantage of the low wages, that never have the tendency to stay low once a place is developed, transporting electricity over vast distances is a bad idea because you may loose over 30% of your production in grid or conversion loses from AC to DC and back to AC, since DC is transported better over vast regions. On top of all that, in order to counter fluctuations in electric production by the so called renewable energy sources you must have 2.5 times more installed capacity than the one you actually need so that you will avoid blackouts. So automatically your production cost increases by 250% because of installation costs. Then you must create power storage installations so that you can store excess energy produced and stabilize your grid. The best way to do this is through Pump Storage Hydroelectric plants but these also add to the overall cost. The idea of using batteries is ridiculously expensive and batteries need to be replaced, usually after 1000 charge - discharge cycles.
A possible short circuit in one of these Lithium batteries would also result in a huge bomb like explosion. If you have ever seen a high power transformer exploding, after a short circuit, it's a terrifying experience.
With today's technology, the best way to replace fossil fuels in electricity production would be to go nuclear. However you can still use fossil fuels, by not burning them directly but by using a gasification process first, followed by CO2 capture treatment afterwards. These are mature technologies that could be implemented in a very short time, provided the proper investments could be made.
I don’t think African countries want Europe to invade them again
@@wandiledlamini2591 Again??? When did they leave??? They just created the illusion of independence for most of the African countries, leaving behind them a system that never let these countries stand on their feet. Africa is one of the richest continents with some of the poorest people in the world...
@@FLORATOSOTHON European companies intentionally destroy third world countries industry so that they are always reliant on western powers
0:52 What's the story behind those people cracking the solar panels with hammers?
robobrain10000 the story in this case was we believe that the people taking hammers to the solar panels were not paid by their employer.
It happened in India, some Hindu religious nut told his followers that Govt is stealing Sun from Sun God or something about salaries issue, & they started breaking panels. Google it up
Climate Samurai, a website about climate change and the use of renewable energy, wrote a blog post about the incident and posted the video on its TH-cam channel in mid-February with the title: “Solar Modules at 100 Mw solar plant in Maharashtra destroyed due to non payment of wages”. Climate Samurai reported that it was not able to get in touch with the solar plant’s contractor. Apparently the workers who had built the solar plant didn’t receive their wages, and so in an act of retaliation they smashed the panels - nothing to do with religion or politics.
observers.france24.com/en/20180626-fake-post-claims-indian-villagers-smashed-solar-panels-angering-gods
@@usmanmaroof8358 just your name is enough to know if your speakig truth or not. What is the reason behind this unconditional hate you have towards hindu. Pakistanis killed all the hindus in their country. Check the population stats. Why?
So, there are only political but not scientific complications...?!?
political and economy.. yep no one dare to invest a huge amount of money in africa..
Last time people invest on being a farmer on Africa they got beheaded and the government support the beheading.
can't even build railroad there because people keeps cutting the rails and sold them, metal are a precious source in a third world countries.
Money and political power it’s how the world works until the last remaining resources become worth life
Ya like with most things, our petty arbitrary conflicts hold us back from true scientific achievement
As if those aren't big reasons. Wold peace isn't possible, anyone claiming responsibility over that piece of land would have an incredible amount of power and leverage--the ability to hold power hostage from certain areas. Or there is more of a potential for the destruction if our entire source of power in worldly conflicts. And people on the other side of the world would not be able to afford to have to have power travel all the way to them. Plus, again, longer distances that power has to travel, the less reliable it is. There's that saying, Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Congratulations on this major achievement in the delivery of green energy!
Thank you for being part of this project.
Mega Solar Power Plant - Benban Aswan Egypt.
Lol I have never thought of it actually, that sounds quite effective.
Meanwhile, Tony Stark created a high powered, zero emission, miniature Arc Reactor in a Middle Eastern cave with just a box of scraps...
Well, he _did_ have those Jericho missiles to extract the Palladium from, though.
The A Team did it first....
@@oriijin5639 😂😂😂
time to wake up kiddo
That is fiction.
Do what if shaggy used 100% of his power
I can't imagine the consequences
This meme is bad and you should feel bad.
First, he can power reality itself. Second, it will destroy the world. Third, *SHAGGYS LIMIT IS NOT 100* . Fourth,(REDACTED).
@@dewhiterabbit1337
Your comment needs to be redacted.
Shaggy's limit is not 100%
How you come up with new stories Is what suprises me. Great Talent sir. @What if
Finally my region (DADES VALLEY /Morocco) is shown on one of my favorite shows
It's a project worth spending on
Try not to snap this time
spider guard you gotta agree to disagree
spider guard I mean if it’s to the point where there are no other solutions then this is the best way to use the money rather then building a shitty wall for no reason
spider guard idk dude(sorry if you’re not a dude) I just think is not worth millions
spider guard pretty sure it cost a few million for each section and the one paying is Mexico
this project won't last 1 day cz in the desert atmosphere,the shape of the ground changes every day and sandstorms will occur, covering the panels and the project will have no more use
they can easily hire people to wash them everyday?
@@jake0.213 still doesn't change the fact that it will fail, because there's another 2 issues after that: energy production and energy storage.
solar panel can only produce energy during day time. With the time zone differences, it will be day time for some countries, and night time for the others. if it's night time for Sahara region, then the countries in the day time period will not function properly due to energy shortage.
At the moment, our technology is still limited, so we can't produce a battery efficient enough to provide energy for a city during the period of time when solar plants can't produce energy.
have u seen UAE. U goto the city and then go out of the city. U see what the city was. U know its 100% posible.
@@vanlao6367 most of Sahara is not sand like on movies but gravel and rocks. When there is day in Sahara there is day also in Europe so it can change a lot
Also materials used in solar panels are very costly.
1st thing in WHATIF which is bit partical, optimistic and really worthy to work upon
A video like this really does everyone a disservice by over simplifying how power is generated, transmitted and used. Part big part of the problem we currently face isn’t just how we produce electricity but the fact that it is produced so far from where it is used. One of the most important benefits of solar power is that it can be produced where it is used, almost eliminating the 60% loss that takes place through transmission. Turning the Sahara into a giant solar farm would be wasteful and almost impossible to maintain compared to producing solar power where it’s used.
You know there is an other unused space all around the world...ROOFS OF HOUSES
Yeah, but how we gonna use that space? Is not like the goverments will give it to us for free, plus in many regions the solar pannels aren't realiable because the lack of a strong sunlight, not even counting that some people just won't buy them
You can also make some power with cloud cover. "Sunny" England makes good use of photovoltaics.
People already pay for solar - they do it by renting power from the electric company every month....
It’s the people’s properly so it’s not technically free...Unless the person who owns the house wants to put solar panels.
MIGUEL PELESCO Unused not free...and laws can be made, to make it mandatory and really there is no real disadvantage of having them on your roof...
I just got a ad about solar panels...
same 😂
Cool, you got an ad about the same thing the video was about? WOW I WOULD NEVER BELIEVE THAT CAN HAPPENED
😂😂😂
Lol same
Ur the chosen one
This guy's voice can lift up mood of almost anyone 😀😀👍👍👍
" This is what if " love the way he says❤️
So it's just funding and power delivery reasons....
Keeping aside maintenance
It would never work even if the funding and delivery was all sorted out. The sand from the desert would cover the panels and the the price to keep the panels maintained would be so much that it would out weigh the benefits.
@@alexstarck1104 😂😂😂😂😂 are you kidding me , dude do you believe all the shit the media is telling ... , you should know that these countries are way safer ...
Alan Lee how does it outweigh the benefit of powering the entire world? If a country where to control the project or company they could make massive profit since its unlimited energy meaning higher pay for workers meaning maintenance is cheap
@@alexstarck1104 LOL you realized middle east and Africa are two different continent right ? The Middle East is basically Asia just south west of Russia hahaahah
Q- What if Sahara covered by solar panels?
Ans- We'll get solar energy.
alka vishwakarma what if solar panels covered with sahara rip human
Simple shit. Yes?
Almost impossible based upon the fact they would need cleaning on a regular basis
0:01 the song reminds me of a function I visited (before corona) .😂
Thiz channel is the one of the few channels that broadens our perspective and view to look at things.
@vide fa lmfao
Yeah if you are limited in your mind such material might add to your mind.
lol cute
2:12
But just wanna let you know,I don't agree with this part.
I see y’all used Zimbabwe as that unstable government 😂
Dam bro that's my country but the government do be corrupt tho
@@RTSclips homeda. Dzokera kuna passion java.😅
That was really unfair.
Well Zimbabwe is a clear example of a country that is relatively stable that turned into a complete shit show in like 5 months. I mean it was the bread basket of Southern Africa and now there is no food!
@@andrewhodgson2566 You are just ignorant. There are so many countries in Africa that have stable government but the news will tell you otherwise.
Solar Pannels: hey guys 6 feet apart duh
From what I recall, the hot air rising already creates the desserts, so wouldn’t more make it even drier?
Hot or warm air produces energy for typhoons or a storm
Wouldn’t sand and dust storms just cover the panels basically making them useless, like the problem with rovers on mars.
Also this requires high cost maintenance, but it would help diversify the African economies from primary resources like oil, uranium, and natural gas. Also also solar energy is best directly, the farther it travels the less valuable it is, making exporting energy in Africa itself a challenge. Cool video though.
Yeah, we need better storage technology before harvesting solar in the desert becomes valuable. If we can store the energy in transportable batteries, then we can transport the energy anywhere.
@@momentary_ lol
Agreed
Not to mention the huge threats by pirating countries surrounding the desert. Solar panels would go up for a pretty penny.
just plug a power strip into itself and you have infinite power duh
Answer is : I have to change my whole assignment
Many things might happen
1. A large work force may be needed to clean sand off the surface of panels
2. Sands of Sahara may bury the panels
If it would really only take 1.2 % of the area of the Sahata to produce all of the world's power then there would likely be only minimal negative effects. But that number sounds a little low to me.
Do what if we used 100% of our brain
Go watch Lucy, it’s a film with scarlet johansson. Apparently at 100% we can use the force and shape shift like mystique from the XMEN😂
Nothing. We do use our 30-40% of our brains when solving even the simplest puzzle. Every part of the brain is designed to do a specific task like analytical thinking, emotions, remembering, musics etc. There are certain times that we even use our 80% of the brain in doing some complicated multi-tasking works. It's a myth that the movie Lucy spreaded like wildfire in the general population, don't believe it
Will cut trees with straws
Stay tuned!
is it me or these people didnt get the joke?
we can go to the moon but we cant make 1,6% of dessert covered in nessesary elecricity
I am just a regular everyday normal motherfucker I do prefer my dessert without electricity, not really a huge fan of getting shocked.
Great idea! I think we should use carrot cake for the electricity producing dessert. Not a fan.
@@IAmMrGreat I don't understand how solar panels in a desert will affect your chances of getting shocked.
@@KillFrenzy96 "deSSert", the(usually) sweet stuff you eat after a meal. I was making a joke because he misspelled.
@@IAmMrGreat He also can't spell 'necessary' or 'electricity'. First sign of someone with an opinion in his head and not much else up there.
As soon as I clicked on this video I got a solar ad are you fricking kidding me
Lets imagine that the whole Sahara is covered with solar panels, then what are we going to use to store that big electrical energy.
Your mom
@@keepmehomeplease ya she can. And also use that energy to kick your ass
Just build solar panels at the sun then attach a long electric wire from earth to sun.
😂😂
Avators Fantastic idea!
Instead of a wire use a laser
Lmao
@@anthonydebs4849 😝👍👍😜
The first "What If" video I saw which doesn't end up with someone dying!
"African warlord has entered the chat".
Plus it would make jobs for people... ;-)
Were doing a space theme in science class. So, i showed my teacher your channel
If we were to cover the desert in solar panels, would it be a desert, or a large solar panel
Then we would see oil companys in southpark saying "they took our jobs"
TOOK YOUR JOB!
*Do what if the earth was the last planet in the solar system*
then it wouldn't f#ck mars right in her p$ssy and create the moon
rip the earth because jupiter has been tanking so many asteroids that would of hit earth for so many years
That doesn’t make any sense.
Everyone should know answear for that
We would be frozen
aah, this bgm is strange but nice😂❤️
3:05 *happy hopeful music plays in the background while building comes crumbling down*
Why not put solar planes in the Nevada desert as like a trail
Helios one
And ruin Las Vegas experience.. No way!
@@wayback872 There's more to Nevada than just Las Vegas.
Nevada is small, but beautiful
@Hamdon Nut lmfao
the wandering dunes would bury and destroy them on a daily basis.
Jonathon Frazier don’t mention the sandstorms that could rip a car door off.
Guybrush Threepwood or beduins stripping the cables for scrap copper.
The sahara has many different types of terrains, from Sandy places to hard rock and mountains.
Yeah, as always, the reason why we can’t achieve amazing things is the fact that humans are still fighting among themselves 🤷♀️ I’m not surprised but still very much disappointed
I really like the last point about the idea of having solar pannels in villages and rural areas in Africa. There are still places where they have blackouts in certain neighbourhoods because it is their day for no electricity.
When you look for a “What If” that doesn’t end in death and you finally find it.....
But the idea still doesn’t work.
What if we covered the Sahara with solar panels
Palpatine: *UNLIMITED POOOOOOWERRR*
0:15 was the Trico Electric solar farm West side of Tucson AZ
Cool editing
The desert would move to another part of the world.
Damn those Deserts, being rude, moving around wherever they want. When will we stop them? IMPRISON THE DESERT RIGHT NOW!
@@onepiecemoments3684 we must build a wall to stop those pesky roaming deserts!
Wall just got 7 feet taller
What if everyone on earth went silent 4 an hour
Na, the vehicles would still make lot of noise
It'll be quiet, what do you expect
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Overpopulation would be solved. Sinners would either die or learn.
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Maintenance of the panel would be the biggest challenge in a desert which may cost big issues in budget of the project
that was an actual project in algeria called desertec was financed by a german company but due to algeria's restricted laws the government simply refused this amazing project that had potential to provide energy to all europe and the north of africa with renewable energy
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That's no knowledge. That's information noone will ever need in their entire life.
We was learning about this in school,. Although it gives us a massive amount of power by the time it reaches big cities hundreds of miles away the voltage will be very low
Too much production in one location & too many long transmission lines
It's always "not that simple" 😂
Are you trying to get Africa invaded by American armies who would "make peace" down there lol
If we really wanted that to happen we’ll say it has oil, they will be storming there in no time
Chinese already moving in. 🤣
China already there
I mean, France is already doing it
America has already interfered in
Africa's affairs countless times albeit not large scale army
Okay, who’s gonna dust off all those panels? 🧐🤣
Cammels pee used for that work.
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I'm a grid system operator. When a large cloud passes by the solar farm you will quickly lose more than 50% of power & thermal generators won't be fast enough to replace it, causing low frequency & major blackouts.
How we can overcome this?
You were talking about the sahara desert and then started talking about the issues of the subsaharan african countries which is irrelevant!
If you're talking about building a solar plant in just 1.2% of the sahara desert then only one country is concerned. Algeria or Morocco control a huge chunk of that desert and they're stable enough to make it so they can build it !
yacine aouimeur the biggest solar farm in the world is in the moroccan sahara
I scrolled down for this. Look like they think "Africa" is a country XD.
@@obscure3202 Since humans came from Africa, it's actually the other way around. "Africans" invaded the rest of the planet.
Splendido Splendente They can’t invade a place without any humans their!! Now can’t they? I didn’t think so. So troll elsewhere.
@@obscure3202 Yes, they can. From the Neanderthals' and other animals' perspective, humans invaded the entire planet.
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Would need lots of precious water to clean the solar surface frequently. I need to do mine every week.
We could find sunny space outside of desert areas big enough to support an amount of people that would be worth it if it weren't for storage and transportation of the energy.
Maybe some day 🤷♂️
Kind of amazing to think what humanity could do if we all worked together.
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So we can use solar panel to get greenery areas from desert resulting in wide range
of land for agriculture.hmmm
Hmmmm :)
This sounds magical
Its actually a terrible idea. I used to be a solar panel cleaner and you would be surprised at the rate they become dirty and how much that dirt inhibits its energy efficiency. I worked primarily in Welsh mountains and arable flat lands on England and that was bad enough. Putting solar panels in a desert full of sand would require so much work to keep them clean and fully efficient. Also, cleaning them in a place so excluded from civilisation and water sources(clean de-ionised water) would require so much back and forth the costs would be insane not to mention the inefficiency of travel, especially in vehicles that traverse desert landscapes. It's just a bad bad idea.
Transportation is not the only major problem here, storage is also a big issue. We don't have good technology for that either.
A battery?
What if every one person in the world start donating 1$ to make the planet green and grow trees on mega massive level?
For some one US dollar is a lot. Just saying.
Now theres so much co2 in the atmostphere that plannting trees can no longer save us. Replace the whole USA (including alaska) with only green trees will only solve about 10% of the current green house atmostphere, as earth tends tk gain 2°C every year and getting worse. A prediction says that 2026 is when we're going to perish due to global change.
@@miniminminimin6007 source?
Just ask like the 50 richest people in the world and you could easily have 10 times the amount of money if they were willing to donate a small part of their money
Nah they'd rather donate to Notre dame and building a wall
Yes! Finally, I'm not one who think this idea😅