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Why don’t we cover the desert with solar panels? – Dan Kwartler
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in aim creative studios, animation, Christoph Sarow, dan kwartler, desert, desert solar panels, Education, electricity, electrons, energy, energy crisis, environmental science, light waves, morocco, noor power plant, renewable energy, sahara desert, sahara desert solar panels, science, solar energy, solar farms, solar panel efficiency, solar panels, solar power, sustainable energy, TED, Ted Education, TED-Ed, TededExplore what would happen if we covered the Sahara Desert in solar panels, and the possibility of it solving our energy crisis. — 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…