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- Explore what would happen if we covered the Sahara Desert in solar panels, and the possibility of it solving our energy crisis.
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Stretching over roughly nine million square kilometers and with sands reaching temperatures of up to 80° Celsius, the Sahara Desert receives about 22 million terawatt hours of energy from the Sun every year. That’s well over 100 times more energy than humanity consumes annually. So, could covering the desert with solar panels solve our energy problems? Dan Kwartler digs into the possibility.
Lesson by Dan Kwartler, directed by Christoph Sarow, AIM Creative Studios.
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Hahah first reply
Sus reply
Hello people of the future
Nuclear is the way to go
in half? good luck with that
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@@moanamaree True. Can relate at that especially in online classes 🤣🤣🤣
I am literally that type of person myself lol
That's what I love the most about TED-Ed! I don't know what I don't know, so it's always a pleasant surprise to come across a topic that I've never thought about before. It stimulates my curiosity in the best possible way and I love that it's free!
Short answer:
-It would produce a lot of heat 🥵
-It may change the ecosystem in deserts 🏜
-Even if you generate alot of electricity, it can't efficienty travel to far away places, just local ✈
"It may change the ecosystem in the deserts" -- We are already changing the ecosystem on the edges of the (growing) desert.
"Electricity can't travel far"-- Maybe convert to hydrogen and ship it over to power power plants? Will tank efficiency though...
@@stalincat2457 u can convert electricity to hydrogen?
@@mrsugar7528 Yeah, by running electricity trough water it will split into it's elemental components (oxygen and hydrogen) at the electrical connections (anode/kathode).
@@mrsugar7528 yes, but amount of electric energy to get hydrogen from water is not very cost-efficient. However, science advances pretty well and these problems can be solved so that later ultragen z kids will scoff at the idea of it not being possible.
@@stalincat2457 That still wouldn't be efficient...
The animation is so top notch that I can't even imagine the load the artists have taken upon themselves.
Yeah and the imagery and juxtaposition they used are also superb. That music too. It’s such a well made video.
Also the soundtrack fits perfectly
Heck yea. I’m sure drawing the BGs was tedious and deciding on a style for the talk pieces, but after that it was smooth sailing. They’re extremely talented.
Agreed ^^ Thank you for it!
@@JadetheGoober BGs ?
"I don't like sand it's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere"
*--Anakin SolarWalker*
OWAH XD
BASED Ottoman Empire
Had a bike accident this week. Sand was in the road an when I pulled the break, the bike slipped and I hurt my knee
Anakin was right, and now I hate sand too
@@jaquelinegillisfrancine2923 "i used to be a jedi like you, then i took sand to the knee" - the janitor of the jedi temple to anakin, probably
Honestly anakin is right. I hate sand too.
"covering the desert in solar panels would vastly change the desert landscape"
well, yes.
did not think of that
I completely missed that logic
It's not just the surface landscape, the climate and ecosystem landscape will also change affecting energy and nutrition cycles which impact the interdependence of plants and animals
@@davidzhu319 k
...so solar panels will create climate change, as he said in the video. Doesn't that make it bad for our planet then?
“Why don’t we cover the desert in solar panels?” Sand. Sand is why.
It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
We can figure a way around that. Obi Wan would
Solar panels on the moon then
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@@frloopr How would we maintain them? and get the power to Earth? we could cover the entire moon in solar panels and it would not be worth the cost of maintenance and transportation
@@InitialPC a) M O O N B A S E
b) Don't need that much actually
c) Power is for M O O N B A S E
Thailand has started putting solar panels on the surface of reservoirs. Saves farmland, reduces wildlife competition for space, if the reservoir has hydro-electric capacity, no new extended distribution network has to be built, and reservoir water can be used for cooling.
Wonderful idea! And it helps preserve the water by reducing evaporation
I wish my country had this initiative
Same thing in india in gujrat state they have covered canal with solar power plants , it saves water from evaporation and overheating during summer also help employee local youth maintenance and cleaning of solar panels
Am-azing.
something that ive seen in a city i visited was an "open air" parking lot with a roof made only of solar panels. it didn't ruin the cities landscape, wasn't in the way of any activity, produced energy and stopped the cars in the parking lot from overheating. definitely think we should all start doing that, or at least when we find a way to recycle solar panels
The parking lot in my school also has a roof made of solar panels.
Wow I love your government I wish ours here would do the same
Cover motorways they take huge space
@@renatogjinihow would modified trucks pass?
That red-shift detail of a photon bouncing between surfaces deserves a big praise!
Absolutely!! Great animation
Keen eye
@@johnfran3218 goku solos Jesus lol
@@fregyt What's the timestamp for it?
@@aspect7915 1:22
Thank you Ted-Ed for answering my question. Being Ghanian, I always wonder why Saharan countries don't come together and invest in solar panels considering the sun shines there literally 24/7 and this would create jobs and help many countries who are already struggling with electricity. I hope that more countries in Africa would adopt the more eco friendly way of getting energy
Couldnt have said it any better
@@emmavrijburg6676 i love your comment!
Then Africa would actually become rich and self sustaining.... Which as I'm sure you know the powers that be cannot have that
You know, the countries such as ones in Africa, India, China has one source that is very rare in rest if the world: cheap labour. If one applies local, indigenous solutions to the problems mentioned in this video who knows, it may work.
To give you an example, sorting out plastic is very expensive *in developed countries* . In countries mentioned above, incidentally it isn't because labour is cheap.
@@thegreatafrican3367 It’s going to happen within this century either way. The Malaria vaccine and the rapid progress within Africa will elevate Africa to as or more powerful than Europe very soon. The only problem is the neo-colonialism from China - trying to get control over these rising countries through soft power.
I’m looking forward to the day when Africa finally catches up
The motion graphics and illustrations for this video are beyond godlike.
The beginning reminded me of Dune. Let's hope we don't end up in a similar fate anytime soon. Educational initiatives like these will hopefully contribute a great deal to deter a dystopian future.
I dont think that is true. My immune system should be sufficent to stop covid 19........but science says it won't. I need a mask for over a year. And taking vaccines that work but you can still get the virus? Well......thats not how the body is supposed to work. So. .. ........... Go science i guess? I dont get it we are just doing what we are told this isnt logical at all.
@@richardvargus7443 if you think it’s that simple then you don’t understand science at all especially biology
@@richardvargus7443 its sufficient but people hate getting sick
Another reason why we don't insert solar panels in desert is because of the shifting sand dunes.
And the sand worms ofc
@@neinherman9989 Dune reference haha
Yeah, I was kinda hoping that they would say something about the massive sand storms in certain parts of the world and how much damage or lack of damage they cause to these facilities.
Good point.
There are deserts with no sand
This was literally in Andy Weir’s “Project Hail Mary” Amazing book, so happy to see people discussing these ideas
Let's hope they can breed enough astrophage to supply the world demand.
But theres a difference between astrophage and electricity is that astrophage can store energy in extremely high concentrations and can be shipped anywhere but electricity has to be produced on demand and near where power is used because there isn't a way to store electricity for a whole day where its cloudy and electricity can't go far on power lines without losing some power in the form of heat due to resistance(ohms).
@@williamporreca3479 They had "Astrophage-powered electrical generators" in the book.
Lol... I read the title and thought "Wait, hasn't this been done before ? I am sure I've read it somewhere."
I remember now that it was from Project Hail Mary :)
@@Anothy True, but my point is that it wouldn't work in real life.
The problem with solar is that currently, the panels have a very limited lifetime and cannot be recycled, producing an ever-growing amount of waste that we don't know what to do with.
Probably smartest comment.
You mean a lifetime of 20-30 years? With very good recycling capabilities. It's one of the cleanest and cheapest ways to produce electricity right now. We have no other choice. Yes, add some nuclear to that for base-load. I wont argue against that. But if solar is cheaper and as clean, it's the way to go!
@@Squidward1314 i read a paper about this for recycling of solar panels and yes, It is true.
Nothing lasts forever, and reliability must be research as the cientifics and enterprises could manage the way to. I am sure that the first cars released broke down more in the past than in the present. In fact, I often see people changing his car because it is "old" and still working. Sorry for comparing it to solar panels, but it is the procedure to success in this topic of starting to get energy from natural sources.
the panels can be recycled but the battery can't
Anyone else has been getting this video recommended to them for an eternity, then finally clicks it and it says it was uploaded 5 days ago ?????????
The question aside, the animation used here is amazing!!
Do you know bu chance which software is used to make animations such as these?
@@khalilferchichi1059 Probably Adobe after effects
The color is also spectacular :)
@Khalil Ferchichi Hi hi! I helped animate some shots of this video :-) the software used for animation are TVPaint, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe After Effects!
Thank you for your interest :-))
@@fraundesign128 wow awesome stuff mate 👏
This animation was particularly exquisite
Love your pfp
I wouldn't like to be a pilot flying over the giant mirror plant.
Could be considered a no fly zone
@@conner3626 A giant no-fly zone seems useless and expensive.
@@conner3626 honestly wouldn't putting more powrplants to a desert be more destructive
They don't converge that high. When the plants are on standby they converge on a focal point in the sky but way below flight paths. You do see the occasional puff of smoke though, where a new fried chicken has been made
I find the whole Ted project both amusing and incredibly good in quality. It's stunning that you make all the videos available for free. In my case, I cannot pay anything but the essentials, and this is really an incredible educational source for people like me with little acquisition power. Keep this up!!!
Furthermore, the desert is always changing. The location of solar plants is crucial as if not placed a low activity region, the panels might be covered by huge dunes of sand within months, never to be recovered or broken beyond repair!
a lot of deserts are rock(y), clay. Plenty of space not covered by moving sand.
Yeah its not possible till SOME OF US DOING IT
*lazily going to bed again*
Maybe some that move woth the sand or something
Naaah you have to imagine how much it costs to make one you would be better making a nuclear powerplant with the technology we have today we can even recycle the nuclear waste. Also solar panels materials are toxic
Only 25% of Sahara is covered by dunes
Companies won't embark on a project like this due to the political instabities of some countries. And let's not forget (as amply demonstrated by Russia) that becoming dependent on other countries to supply one's energy needs leaves one extremely vulnerable.
exactlyyy the political aspect of this is it's own can of worms
It's ironic that the middle east again gets a large amount of the energy cake, even post oil. As they not only have a shitload of oil, but have most of the deserts too.
@@dekippiesip yeah. Another reason to raid them
@@Bro_wat Look at Desertec, it failed for the same reasons
Australia is planning large solar facilities to produce hydrogen, which will the be transported as ammonia gas to energy and industrial markets globally.
I can't get over how well animated this is
This video is brilliant. The narration, the illustrations and the music were all perfect.
I’ve been asking this same question since I was a kid!
Right .....
Same here and I think that this may be the most asked question ❓❓....🤔🤔
I studied it in 4th class..... SAND DUNES WILL COVER UP THE SOLAR PANELS
@@Desi.Superman 👏👏
@@Desi.Superman plus, you have to transport the energy
Seeing this voice actor not be the snarky Demon of Reason caught me off guard. Their voice is amazing.
Haha true me too
yup, makes me want to listen and learn, i love it
truly the most beautiful video ever made by Ted-Ed. thank you so much for being an amazing source of information.
My dad and I often talked about ideas on how we could’ve used the Sahara to our advantage (thinking about energy), glad this video came on my recommended. Good animation, good explanation and overall really well made, thank you for bringing this topic up :)
I took an "Energy in the 21st Century" class in college. The conclusion was the same: a 1000 x 1000 km range of concentrated solar mirrors would power the earth... but there's no way to move that electricity to the rest of the planet.
I also learned that thorium breeder reactors use like 99% of waste from current US reactors, but an old cold war clause prevents the US from implementing them. :(
I’m increasingly finding that it’s clauses like these that prevent implementation of many potentially revolutionary technologies… it’s quite unfortunate.
Why not just use double or triple that area in sites spread around the equator and use the excess power to make up for losses when converting the electricity into hydrogen or methane from sea water and air then transporting that via tanker or pipeline?
@@filonin2 It just ends up being too inefficient. There aren't too many locations near the equator that don't get cloudy like the Sahara doesn't. Also, gas storage of energy is possible, but too much is lost in the transportation of it to make sense. :(
@@alexhobbs5704 but does it need to be near the Equator? Because how many are there in the world? The US has a desert, China, Australia and Chile have deserts.
Maybe the only continent without a desert is Europe, but the Sahara is around the corner.
Maybe that scheme with mirrors pointing to a salty water resevoir could actually work
@@_orodrigofernandes Perhaps not near the equator, but the Sahara is unique for how much energy hits the place from the sun. Other places aren't as abundant. For example, I live in the US West, and my area is classified as a desert, but is far too cloudy, and has very short days in the winter.
Never even considered this as an option. Sounds brilliant. Let's find out if it works.
It's a very old dream. I first heard about it back in 1999. The technology is still catching up.
I‘ve always wondered about this
How much are we humans gonna extract from this nature. We are already exploiting it too much. We should remember that we are here because of the existence of nature. We should never forget that this nature is both the creator and destroyer, the power is beyond man's control. We need to atleast prevent these things from happening in the future or nature will become history. We are gonna lose all the rapture or perhaps we will end up culminating with this world itself...
@@somebody867 what are you trying to say?
@@somebody867 not really. Putting solar panels in the dessert would be the least harmful to nature because there's not much nature in the desert and it won't affect the sunlight anywhere else.
the animation, music, and sound effects was just 😍🤌
But how magical is the music in the background?
So good!
This animation was beyond beautiful, not to mention extremely interesting! Keep up the great work Ted-ED.
Besides of the heat problem, the energy transfer become a problem too. Sahara and many other deserts are far away from human settlements where have abundant energy demand, and the transfering the energy (electricity) needs a long, huge and reliable grid system. Because of that, as this video said, batteries and energy conversion become other options, but all of them still too costly. Then, lets hope there will be a more efficient and reliable solar panel to be commercialized in the future such as Perovskite.
Amazing lesson and animation as always, I love to see the photon hit the electron animation, its just cool and easily recived by general people
Surprised how far I had to scroll down for this, and surprised that it was not mentioned at all in the video. If storing or transporting energy were free, our world would already run on solar (or at least be rapidly moving in that direction). It doesn't matter how cheap or efficient we make the panels because the bottleneck is storing energy at night and transporting it from solar farms to cities.
Hopefully all the R&D spending on electric car batteries spills over to solar energy and makes it feasible.
@@gregalbano2545 I don't know where the technology is but in India there is a new power line that can transmit at 1800KV reducing energy loss to 4% at 1000km, but it's expensive.
@@gregalbano2545 3:40?
Yes. It’s too remote for regular maintenance, initial installation and transmission. It’s far better to instal panels as close to where the electricity is needed as possible, even if this means much less sun exposure.
Imagine powering Edinburgh. You can either install x number of panels in the Sahara and route them to Scotland or install 50x in the surrounding area, such as rooftops. Multiply this by a million different cities in the word. There is no way other countries want to be dependent on one gigantic solar farm or a few giant transmission lines.
@@choreomaniac one thought that came to my mind was why don't we cover cold snow deserts with solar panels, i mean definitely the amount of energy generated would be less, but there will be no requirement of a cooling mechanism. But again on further thinking, i realised that the panels will eventually end up being covered with snow due to blizzards and storms.
The first problem that popped into my head upon reading that title is the sand which will cover up the panels rendering them useless. Not to mention wicked sandstorms which would undoubtedly damage the panels as well.
“Lets have solar panels in the desert, that’ll solve our energy problem”
Sand: we’ll see about that
This is the single best video on this topic I've ever seen. Literally every other video on youtube, and even written essays elsewhere, just talks about how much energy COULD be generated with solar panels in the Sahara, never addressing the massive amounts of water necessary to maintain it, the ecological damage it would do to the Sahara, and just the simple fact that getting the energy from the Sahara to say, Japan, would be a logistical and expensive nightmare.
ooh the graphics and animations are spot-on on this one, kudos!
Thank you so much, Kassandra. This one was really helpful and I’d love to hear more. 😊
These illustrations are awesome
The problems is, in desert we often get sand storm. Also even a small wind carrying a lot small and light sand
Because of that problem we need to clean our solar panels *Once each day.* And with that big amount square metres of panels, it's will take alot of workers and time to clean it
So that's make the maintenance costs for solar power in the desert getting higher
Even higher than nuclear power plant maintenance (cost/energy)
When we only cleanings the panels each 1 month on regular area (not desert) such a city, or rural, or Plain, ect.
*Meanwhile in desert we need to do it each day just for better effectivity of foton solar absorption*
That was the first thing that came to mind. Also wouldn't it disrupt the environment there
And isn't sand abrasive to glass?
We could just make the solar panels vibrate to shake off light dirt. Just like that mars rover did to itself using wind.
Mars is a desert planet. Our rovers and helicopter are solar-powered. 0 humans clean off their panels.
@@-Subtle- Some are nuclear, though, if iirc.
TED-Ed seriously brings the quality with these videos! I almost felt immersed in the video with the music / sounds, the calm voice over, and the wonderful animations. Keep up the good work!
I'm annoyingly curious by nature. These are questions I ask when I was still a kid, that I get no reasonable answer. I'm happy TedED is giving me my most awaited answer.
I've been wondering about this really long... Thanks a lot TED-ED for this wonderful video.. has helped me a lot..
the only question here is: how do they make those transitions so smooth? 😭
probably writing the script first and animating around that. also using large objects and suddenly its a different item when the camera pans over
Slowing down and speeding up the animation according to when they need to transition . I think
I always assumed the reason why we do not cover mass desert areas with solar panels is primarily the rather extreme forces of erosion they will face...people forget that sand wreaks absolute havoc on electronics and infrastructure unless they are fully prepared for such factors. Best case scenario the pannels will last a good few years, but will require matinence and cleaning to prevent massive dust/sand buildup from basically making them inoperable or inefficient. Otherwise worse case scenario they may straight up be buried by the sands, or consistently eroded away to the point that they are useless. That is why if I'm correct the best areas to put solar pannels are arid, but not necessarily sandy dessert areas (think like the mohave or some areas of Afghanistan) where sunlight can reach them, but face less buffering from the environment.
I know its also not my place...but Im more pro-nuclear than anything, it just seems more viable with some of the advancements that have been made, much easier to place, and overall just more effective and reliable than most renewable energy sources...but whenever people think nuclear their minds go to Chernobyl, fukishima, and bombs...not the new reactor designs, potential energy breakthroughs, and advancements made in safety and environmental impact.
Only problems with Nuclear is disposing it. Eventually we will run out of areas to disposing it.
@@Johnnyy832 That is true but we need to use these spaces as we need this extra time to find better cleaner and more efficient energy sources than our current ones. Nuclear power isnt a permanent solution either, since the power sources isnt sustainable as well, you cant grow uranium. But it is necessary.
@@Johnnyy832 that is "true" hypothetically, but with advancements made we are actually finding safer and more effective ways of storage and come up with functional and efficient disposal sites.
At the moment thorium is looking really promising from what I have examined as while its waste has a higher radiation output, it produces MUCH less waste overall and said waste has a significantly lower half-life (300 compared to 100k)
Thats also not getting into advancements that can be made into fusion which frankly might effectively be miracle energies if done right.
@@BreatheManually while I agree with you in that are current means isn't exactly "permanent" with research we most certainly can get close with things like fusion, also I might have mentioned it above, but while uranium is relatively scarse, there is far more significant deposits of thorium that with more research can be the next major nuclear fuel, and considering it shows to put off more energy, with less waste...the time it could give us is a lot greater than we could expect.
Infact im just going to link this video to maybe not the most academic, and perphas a bit "crass", but overall effective way of explaining why thorium is so good, and frankly why we need to be spending a lot more into researching reactors using it.
th-cam.com/video/jjM9E6d42-M/w-d-xo.html
I hope you guys find it amusing and interesting 😄
Thank you for this video, this is a question that my students have asked in our energy unit in science. I'll be showing this to them after spring break.
Okay but the animation of this episode tho... Phenomenal
What about subterranean heat pipe. If the sand is incredibly hot then why don’t we collect the energy of the sand. So we could let the sand absorb the energy and probably do less destruction to the ecosystem.
well installing that pipe might do quite a bit damage. But otherwise it sounds like a good idea.
Does it actualy have to be buried tho?
In the video they say that the sands reach up to 80ºC, not enough for energy generation
@@lluismr97 I think the mirrors is simpler to implement and you get easily exceed 80c needed using mirrors. The fact that it can continue producing energy at night due to heat retention sounds promising.
The problem would be distribution. Even if we could get all of humanity's power needs, it would be a huge task to distribute that globally.
@@joemann7971 there are more than one desert around the world I'm sure there is a solution.
The animation and the music successfully builds a fictional world.
To the Ted Ed team.
I am always impressed by the quality of knowledge you passes..
What amazing animation and music! So well done 👏 I love this style
The animation style in this video is so good!
The initial animation with the light bulbs in the sand is a MASTERPIECE!
Thank you for your educational and thought-provoking videos.
this video is quite easy to understand since the animation and his explaination was clear and interesting, love that! ❤
IMHO, Best animation so far for a ted video, and the Piano notes were just a cherry on top!!
Instead of Solar Panels, which have to use wires to distribute electricity, my idea is to use Concave Mirrors, concentrate light, then transfer it in fiber optic cables around the world, to their location use. This would transfer energy without any loss, as well as you can convert light to electricity at the destination. For example, you can build huge concave mirror farms in Saudi Arabia, concentrate light, transfer it in fiber optic cables to India/China, and in a city in India/China, use light to heat boilers to produce electricity. This will ensure that, even if it's day/night in India/China (or any part of the world for that matter) you could still get electricity from the part of the earth that has a desert and day. So you can have 24hrs energy all over the world.
*ANYWAY that's my idea, I don't know if it will work or not*
i hope someone replies
Yeah, it *might* work
I dont think it will work because the cable wil not heat up evenly
Fiber optic cables are not practical for energy transfer at large scales because they do not transmit much of their power over long distances and they heat up very quickly, melting/breaking themselves. Undersea cables which transmit data use low-energy signals with re-amplifiers periodically to keep the cable cool and the transmission readable at the other end.
FIber optic engineer here 👋 That's a great idea in theory, and the mirrors used to concentrate light to a point are actually used in some solar electricity farms which use cheap mirrors to concentrate a lot of light onto a small, efficient and therefore expensive solar panel. However fibres aren't lossless methods of energy transfer. For one thing, only certain wavelengths can be guided in fibres, and others experience high levels of loss. And while fibres are great for low-energy data transfer, once you start to put high-intensity light into them it experiences even more loss due to "non-linear effects". So unless the Sun is providing us with a low level of light around 1550nm we we wouldn't be able to use it in fibres, and even if we get that low-loss wavelength an increase in intensity to the levels where it would be useful for power transfer would mean that the light wouldn't make it to the other end of the fibre.
Even at the sweet-spot wavelengths where light can travel with fairly little loss, there is still some loss and in commercial systems there are powered amplifiers every few km.
these animations are so satisfying to watch :0 plus, love the content and topic
Transmission, accessibility for maintenance, sandstorms are my 10 second answers.
the animation, music, and style of this video is some of the best I've seen
bad idea to centralize solar production- you're unnecessarily asking for mega-corporations to maintain control over our energy, to hold us hostage to their production, and to charge us accordingly.
i have a small solar setup that i installed and that meets my needs. it's reliable, portable, relatively inexpensive, and independant of any grid corporation. everyone making their own power would mean no expensive infrastructure to carry that power across distances, no mass outages, no hacking, and no monopoly on energy by the giants.
I don't think, that this is feasible for e.g. alumiuim production, CO2 neutral Kerosene, chemical plants and all other industrial applications we need and will need in the future. Also note, that there are urban areas, where nearly no house can be build selfsustaining, due to the densety of population.
we consume way to much power for localized production, not to mention the density. If it was that easy we wouldnt have centralized heating and electricity at first place, wed still use wood and fire cabins
@@random4073 thats true but if the centralised power supply is not green the effort would be almost neglectable
aren't they doing the same currently? there are massive corporations controlling our electricity, just not doing it efficiently with solar panels, and are using non renewable sources of energy.
With the declining availability of fossile energy and the increasing effect of global warming, we must think electrical energy as a substitute to fossile energy, requiring much more power than just today electrical consumption. What would be the size of your solar setup to load your car battery ?
Beautiful storytelling. Top-notch animations!
Gorgeous animation
Me: *I'm bored, what does Ted-ed have for me today*
Ted-Ed: _why don't we cover the desert with solar panels?_
also Me: *..No, no, he's got a point.*
Have you found the cure yet?
😅
Exactly
plauge doc did u brech the scp site ?
how are u here ????
Actually no , first of all that would only benefit the countries nearby in terms of electricity productiin and then they have no plan for night time where barely any is produced , This would work better I the nevada desert tbh
The beauty of this animation made me gasp
I can make you gasp too ;))
@@therankingworld7627 😭
Thanks so much 🙏
Amazing content. Thank you!
You left out that solar panels have limited life spans, are made with toxic chemicals and we have no idea how to safely disposed of the millions of panels we already have. They also only produce power 30% of the time and those batteries you need to store the power also have limited life spans and are made with toxic chemicals that will need to be disposed of.
I think they kind of hinted at this at the end of the video
The illustrations and animations are off the charts!
0:43 lovely rhyme!
That intro sound is just wow! Never gets old
The transitions and soundtrack in this one is so satisfying. Appreciate that
Glad people realize it ain't as simple as the media makes it
Well we don’t need to cover the entire desert though.
Also this video is media too but I know what you were saying
The animation and illustration are outstanding
I've always wondered. Thanks
Animation is out of this world
I’m always mesmerised by animations!
It helps to understand and digest idea’s quickly!
Thanks Ted Ed :)
i love the animation so much, the transitions are beautiful
Very informative and beautifully animated to be pleasant on the eyes :)
Visual design and sound design are astonishingly stylish.
Great video but a giant props to whoever created this animation! Just WOW! It's truly stunning and beautiful, and displays what is being talked about in a smart and simple way.
my god, what a beautiful video. the visuals + music
Your chanel are always great information about all topics.
The soundrack blends so well with the graphics, nice job by the sound crew!!
Animation quality is just insane
the drawings are amazing and illustrate perfectly the point of the video.
THE ANIMATION??? Extremely gorgeous
Ted Ed writes down the questions when you’re baked then answers them
The wind will cover up the panels in sand . The sand will damage the panels .
This is very interesting, I never thought about the impact this would have on the envirnment
I love how you animated dessert in gravity well istead of animating solar cell panels
Love every little bits the animations to explain us more in details
That is simply bloody beautiful.
There’s a book where this happens! It’s called Hail Mary, written by the same guy who wrote The Martian, and it happens when (slight spoilers) the world needs a really fast way to produce heat for this microbe, so they decide to pave the Sahara with solar panels so they can use the electricity to create that heat. They acknowledge all the points made in this video, but they’re so desperate to get this microbe to reproduce that they don’t care. It’s a great read, I recommend it. They also nuke the arctic at one point if you’re interested in reading about that.
the music and sound design was beautiful and fit with the animation so well!
Quality video. I didn't know that solar panels were so inefficient. Excellent points and animation as always.
The music for this video is mysterious as heck.
Smart move to release this video around the the same time Dune premiere. What a beautiful animation and an excellent explanation of the topic.