This is a very dood idea and is so simple and efficent and with a wekk balanced benefits for industry employment local population and reforestation I hope this plan will progress!
There are actually dozens of companies wanting to do the same thing. They all want to make big money. As simple as that. There is no one on this planet who wants/does BIG charity for the poor. As we know today, we can gain a lot of energy from saving it, wisely converting waste to energy and wisely utilizing local nature. Basically, there is even no NEED for such a project to us in the 1st world. The ONLY (political) reason is to replace the declining fossil fuel with electricity in the future.
And you know what? They promised everything for 3rd world countries over the last 500 years. Guess what happened? They have no resources left and all they got is a exploited and exhausted land. Now we try to do it all over again? Colonization 3.0?
@1MadVirus1 don't worry . .. we won't depend 100% on solar power in the desert, we still have windmills, wave power turbines.. and we will put the solar panels around the world not only in Africa
@1982mouloud Yeah, just like muslims blow up buildings right, and them sneaky jews are so cheap. Look, my point is that you shouldn't condemn the many for the work of a few.
Wow, I have huge problems with this video. The silica in the Sahara desert is of a poor quality for manufacture of silicon for solar panels and electronics. This is a minor detail, but if you wanted to manufacture silicon, you wouldn't do it there. HTSC's do not exist and when we get HTSC's is unknown. Solar power cannot power 50% of a power grid currently. In a perfect situation it can power up to 40% of a grid. Realistically, solar will be up to 30-35% of a grid.
i m egyptian .... i can tell u = this is more than we even dream about .... i luv japan ... i really do ... this will fight poverty & global eco-system issues ... dear japan plz send it for abetter world ... u america stop sending troops ... we need no more blood .... plz ... we got enough
Hey japan, you want to invent cyber bodys so you can give me a political job where I use a security force to eliminate resistance to technological progress working as a para-military police force? America seems more interested in fighting religious wars, please send me an invite to the real party.
just because this is in African countries doesn't mean the population is doing absolutely nothing all day and you have a few million people to employ instantly
1)after they get to year 2013 they will be building sili plants and polysili plants at a rate of 2n/2 -1 = n-1 plants a year -- did a scientist really right 2n/2 -1 ??? really, my kid sister in 4th grade would reduce that fraction
@saylio79 Umm you mean "write" right? I see you tried to present some sort of point with all that.. I read it all, but the tone of your writing and the errors you made make me feel like I shouldnt be bothered to even think about what you were trying to get at.. You come off as naive.. You use things like A) and 1) .. But there is no B) or 2)..
Anyways.. I agree, the infrastructure has to be considered, and this video does not seem to consider that, or some other fine points.
Well the math says that in 2050 or n =2050-2013=37 you would have 2^(37/2+1) plants built. well that is equal to 741455 plants. @100kW each that means they are producing 74,145,500,000 ~ 74 GW and hitting 100GW by 2051
A) there is nothing in human history that we have been able to produce exponentially -- NOTHING -- bacteria can do it but not humans
@saylio79 I think your looking at your numbers the wrong way. It said EACH solar cell produce 100kw, not each plant. You could say that each plant holds somewhere between 80 to 100Mw. That should reduce your number to roughly 75000 plants. The biggest challenge is delivering the energy. Current super conductors today need to be about -240 deg C to operate.
this guy thinks that humans can build something at an exponentions rate at the time 3:38 of this video his chart says they will build plants at a rate of 2^(n/2+1) - that means in year 17 they will be building 13000 plants -- its not possible -- it doesn;t even look possible on paper -- ok so you got cheap silicon, but what about the other materials you will need like aluminum supports and copper wires
there is NOTHING humans can create in an exponential manner
Include ecological impacts and how to keep them to a minimum from the early stages of research. I think this can be done with minimal disruption of desert ecosystems and hope that is one of the project goals.
Oh, great. Now they want to de-sand the desert. Why not just bore a hole to the center of the earth and suck out the molten iron for cast iron skillets. Let's just suck the Earth dry.
@Asymmatrix Actually, the desert has billions of tons of sand, probably trillions. The desert is continually expanding, due to wind and sandstorms. If this project works, we wouldn't need to suck the desert dry (pun intended) of sand.
and why go down into the earth when we could just mine asteroids?
@zblaber Oh hat's great, well then lets just exploit it until there's 50% left and call it a success. How about real renewables which don't deplete massive amounts of resources...
@Asymmatrix Absorbing sunlight is exactly what solar panels are for! Sand, on the other hand, has a high reflectivity. I'm guessing you didn't major in physics? In any case, whatever heat the sand absorbs, it gives it back out again at night. Assuming that the reason you want to 'absorb heat' is global warming (which makes no sense anyway, because the Earth absorbing heat is the whole problem), cutting fossil fuel use via of solar power is going to do a lot more to help than some sand.
@Asymmatrix I'm not automatically a troll just because I disagreed with you! Trust me, the Sahara is not about to run out of sand, not even if we entirely covered it with solar panels. The sand is deep, and solar panels are thin. Sure, sand is finite (as is everything), but there's finite and there's finite. Sand is not gold dust.
@Asymmatrix as it is obvious that your head is so far up your butt that you need to pump in air, I shall not continue to point out the obvious, and simply say that you need to READ!
Ladies and Gentlemen of the internet. I would like to hereby recognize Asymmatrix as being "mad" as evidenced by the fact he has no solid evidence to back up the horse s*** spewing from his mouth.
@Asymmatrix i'm talking about the fact that everyone else has been presenting hard facts. I do not posses a degree in quantum physics, nor do I possess one in geology. I am merely trying to point out to you that you have your head in the sand and are ignoring all of the facts. Kinda like the Tea Party, now that i think about it.
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I hate this project, of all the place in the world, they had to use of the north Africa. I'm not going to let this happen, this is another ploy to take the natural resource of Africa, no good will come from this. The Sahara it not meat for solar panels, it can be recondition for planet life. This is not going to happen, find another place for your solar panels.
@reubenbridges are you retarded ? exploit ? exploit what ? empty deserts ? exploit the sun ? YOU ARE CLEARLY RETARDED ! The north african people will even benefit from this !
@chabi3000 First off there is no need for name calling, Second the Sahara was not always a desert. And third this would not be good for north Africa. Of all the places in the world, It would do more harm then good. Building factories just make silicon and Africa would get nothing really in return except solar panels. Like I said before, nothing good will come from this.
@reubenbridges Africa would gain high tech jobs and could potentially become the worlds largest exporter of energy(and the revenue that would go along with it). You dont think that would benefit North Africa?
Ok if I'm wrong, I'll send a message you and everyone message a saying I was wrong. But down deep, I know I'm not wrong. They are using this area to make more money from Silicon, the solar panels are just eye candy. To make what they are doing look good, why don't all this other countries just have there own programs to fix there own energy problems? Instead of using a whole top area of a continent. If I'm wrong, they'll have to prove me wrong.
@reubenbridges "Africa would get nothing really in return except solar panels." Because of course, people living in African nations have no use for electricity?
@reubenbridges If people could grow stuff in the Sahara, they would. You seem to think we have magical abilities to turn half a continent of desert into farmland, and we don't. There is no topsoil, nothing to grow anything on. On the other hand, vast amounts of power from solar arrays in the desert would mean way less fossil fuel use, which means less CO2, less mercury, less sulphur compounds etc, and of course our fossil fuel supply would last longer. What's the problem?
No I do not have magical abilities, but you can turn a desert back into green space. Just because you put solar panels all over the north Africa, to try and cut down the use of CO2. Will still be a waste of time, the use of fossil fuels will increase. Not decrease, what then? More solar panels in more deserts, this is not about supplying the world another power source. Maybe I should do a video series on how to make desert into green space. And Dr. Strange Jealous.
@reubenbridges I would be most interested to hear about your plan to turn an almost completely barren desert the size of the United States into farmland. And also what kind of reasoning led you to the notion that having vast amounts of solar power will *increase* our use of fossil fuels. I mean, it sounds like you're just saying anything that will justify saying that this is somehow bad.
So I guess I have to show and prove then. And no I'm not just saying anything to make it sound bad. I'm basing everything from what seen from other companies
that continue to operate in Africa, only to take the resource for there own gain and the people suffer. If I can show you what can said can be done, then I can go and teach them how to do it. Like I told Sotall111, if I'm wrong, I'll personally write you back saying I was wrong. But they have to prove me wrong.
@reubenbridges I agree that unjust exploitation takes place. However, in this case, even if African nations got almost nothing out of this (unlikely), they're hardly losing anything either. The Sahara is basically a wasteland. No one lives there, and no one has any use for it, resource-wise. Until now.
@reubenbridges You are totally right. You know what happens here in good old germany? They convert perfect fertile farmland into solar panel fields. Why? Because the solar companies pay more. Effect: Food prices rise and farmland vanishes. It's exactly what they do in the 3rd world actually. They grow E10 plants on their soils so that we can drive around in our luxury cars and the local people have nothing to eat. They grow food, but we drive it in our cars.
majority ive done research before you can protect the solar panels with a "dome" like shape over the panel not also only protecting the solar panel you can also increase the power consume to store with the lens as a dome into a concave lens to increase sunlight.
@edeikuliu Oh yeah i forgot. Problem is that... people in the local area isn't gonna "submit" into this technology. For instance, its like shoving down a new culture into a new culture, they gotta start off small for the locals to get used to it, before they can surplus their economy. They gotta start small, before you start big, and use what is around you (which is also provided in the process of the plan project) Try reading "ugly american" its a good book about showing innovations to locals.
@samurai3219 that's one way but wouldn't that disrupt the Sunlight reaching the Solar Panels. Cause from what i know, trees Given more sunlight trees will grow quite a height..... and the Desert sand is too cruel, only "special" plants are able to live there.......
Japan should really have a free green card to waltz into any place on the globe they desire. I love Japan. I just hope Algeria don't elect a retarded extremist government that issue a mandate that has them occupy the solar cells with military force or something.
hmmm...if this is successful they may be able to also reduce the intensity of the heating effect from the sun's rays. you guys know about the global warming thing right? If they used this system global warming caused by the sun itself due to pollution and the hole in the o-zone layer may be greatly reduced.
@chad599abc hmmm........I estimate thet it would take over 5 years to make a silicon factory, and a year to make huge loads of whatever random estimate of solar panels comes to six years per factory and groups of panels. the issue is wether it will be done on time and on schedule without any hitches plus wether there will be enough money to make this happen...
This is a very noble undertaking. I hope they succeed. Providing half of the world's energy needs while educating the people of Africa and giving them a means to a higher standard of living is just too great to express in a youtube comment.
@bigblackjr7 by making some sort of Shielding device that will effectively shield the Solar Panels from the Sand.......While at that, why not make use of the Wind as well?? Sand Storms are quite windy......Make use of it
@bigblackjr7 yah..... Sandstorms are known to be quite unpredictable and Destructive.........Using Solar Panels as energy.....for the World....really reminds me of Gundam 00, 1 huge Solar panel Ring around the earth to provide energy for everyone........
@SlowRkers ah true so very true I remember that in some countries part of their elctricity came from thos special winmill like fans that produce electricity for its city.
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@Freshman000000 screw japan u saw what they did to pearl harbor thats why U.S.A had to drop the NUKE on them assholes hopefully they learn to not fuck with uss again .
At least some are thinking about helping the continent of Africa an it is people
hum6web4 3 months ago
This is a very dood idea and is so simple and efficent and with a wekk balanced benefits for industry employment local population and reforestation I hope this plan will progress!
DecencyPOLICE 3 months ago
This project can significantly help north african economy. I aprove.
TheLivirus 3 months ago
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great video,cant wait for more.
NoahBestyLeoWolfeq 4 months ago
They don't have the tech to do this yet so it's still a pipe dream...
waypasthadenough 4 months ago
This is a good idea for getting rid of desert sand which was 95% useless to human kind, .. and it's part of natural disaster ( sand storm ) ..
tommyn79 7 months ago
There are actually dozens of companies wanting to do the same thing. They all want to make big money. As simple as that. There is no one on this planet who wants/does BIG charity for the poor. As we know today, we can gain a lot of energy from saving it, wisely converting waste to energy and wisely utilizing local nature. Basically, there is even no NEED for such a project to us in the 1st world. The ONLY (political) reason is to replace the declining fossil fuel with electricity in the future.
InventorSolidworks 7 months ago
And you know what? They promised everything for 3rd world countries over the last 500 years. Guess what happened? They have no resources left and all they got is a exploited and exhausted land. Now we try to do it all over again? Colonization 3.0?
InventorSolidworks 7 months ago
1) Our power consumption will increase by 2050
2) So what do we do if it's night? Or when it rains? (It does rain sometimes in the desert)
1MadVirus1 8 months ago
@1MadVirus1 Funny, they charge batteries for the night, and funny it isn't pitch black in the rain.
Ndamiano100 8 months ago
@1MadVirus1 don't worry . .. we won't depend 100% on solar power in the desert, we still have windmills, wave power turbines.. and we will put the solar panels around the world not only in Africa
tommyn79 7 months ago
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ضد الأوربيين والأمريكيين الكلاب
1982mouloud 10 months ago
@1982mouloud Stop hating.
TheLivirus 3 months ago
@TheLivirus Europeans exploited the wealth of the worst vulnerable peoples
Be honest with yourselves because you are the most racist people
And especially the French and English
1982mouloud 3 months ago
@1982mouloud Yeah, just like muslims blow up buildings right, and them sneaky jews are so cheap. Look, my point is that you shouldn't condemn the many for the work of a few.
TheLivirus 3 months ago
Wow, I have huge problems with this video. The silica in the Sahara desert is of a poor quality for manufacture of silicon for solar panels and electronics. This is a minor detail, but if you wanted to manufacture silicon, you wouldn't do it there. HTSC's do not exist and when we get HTSC's is unknown. Solar power cannot power 50% of a power grid currently. In a perfect situation it can power up to 40% of a grid. Realistically, solar will be up to 30-35% of a grid.
bayouboyy 1 year ago
This is a very very old project and it-s been tried before. Problem is the sand in the air destroyes the solar bateries...
letopizdetz 1 year ago
Sahara Solar Breeder Foundation official website
youkoi1 1 year ago
i m egyptian .... i can tell u = this is more than we even dream about .... i luv japan ... i really do ... this will fight poverty & global eco-system issues ... dear japan plz send it for abetter world ... u america stop sending troops ... we need no more blood .... plz ... we got enough
3waad3 1 year ago 17
@3waad3 As an American, I agree with you 100%. Less war. More technology.
Ruffhouse789 2 months ago in playlist Tech 2
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eksman187 1 year ago 4
YEAH!
Cleanthinkingde 1 year ago
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AlgerianConnection 1 year ago
Im surpirsed they didnt claim this to be bio-inspired from flowers.. That seems to be the new fad..
shadywalker 1 year ago
Hey japan, you want to invent cyber bodys so you can give me a political job where I use a security force to eliminate resistance to technological progress working as a para-military police force? America seems more interested in fighting religious wars, please send me an invite to the real party.
TheLifePerfect 1 year ago
just because this is in African countries doesn't mean the population is doing absolutely nothing all day and you have a few million people to employ instantly
1)after they get to year 2013 they will be building sili plants and polysili plants at a rate of 2n/2 -1 = n-1 plants a year -- did a scientist really right 2n/2 -1 ??? really, my kid sister in 4th grade would reduce that fraction
saylio79 1 year ago
@saylio79 Umm you mean "write" right? I see you tried to present some sort of point with all that.. I read it all, but the tone of your writing and the errors you made make me feel like I shouldnt be bothered to even think about what you were trying to get at.. You come off as naive.. You use things like A) and 1) .. But there is no B) or 2)..
Anyways.. I agree, the infrastructure has to be considered, and this video does not seem to consider that, or some other fine points.
shadywalker 1 year ago
Well the math says that in 2050 or n =2050-2013=37 you would have 2^(37/2+1) plants built. well that is equal to 741455 plants. @100kW each that means they are producing 74,145,500,000 ~ 74 GW and hitting 100GW by 2051
A) there is nothing in human history that we have been able to produce exponentially -- NOTHING -- bacteria can do it but not humans
saylio79 1 year ago
@saylio79 We have been able to produce transistors exponentially.
bobo1on1 1 year ago
@saylio79 I think your looking at your numbers the wrong way. It said EACH solar cell produce 100kw, not each plant. You could say that each plant holds somewhere between 80 to 100Mw. That should reduce your number to roughly 75000 plants. The biggest challenge is delivering the energy. Current super conductors today need to be about -240 deg C to operate.
justbram 1 year ago
just do what ??
this guy thinks that humans can build something at an exponentions rate at the time 3:38 of this video his chart says they will build plants at a rate of 2^(n/2+1) - that means in year 17 they will be building 13000 plants -- its not possible -- it doesn;t even look possible on paper -- ok so you got cheap silicon, but what about the other materials you will need like aluminum supports and copper wires
there is NOTHING humans can create in an exponential manner
saylio79 1 year ago
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saylio79 1 year ago
100 Million research? Just do it!
eurogoldexchange 1 year ago
i hope they dont plan on having clones operate it
Dioxholster 1 year ago
If we get the outback on board, we may have continuous solar generation 24 hours of the day. The outback is at the other side of the globe.
kingkong20062006 1 year ago
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EdSchlittRealtors 1 year ago
The first plant will be the most difficult. Only once that one is built, will they really know if the project is viable.
Ape65 1 year ago
1000+ Kudos to the Leaders and Founders of this Project !
chabi3000 1 year ago
Include ecological impacts and how to keep them to a minimum from the early stages of research. I think this can be done with minimal disruption of desert ecosystems and hope that is one of the project goals.
jrshipley 1 year ago
Oh, great. Now they want to de-sand the desert. Why not just bore a hole to the center of the earth and suck out the molten iron for cast iron skillets. Let's just suck the Earth dry.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
@Asymmatrix Actually, the desert has billions of tons of sand, probably trillions. The desert is continually expanding, due to wind and sandstorms. If this project works, we wouldn't need to suck the desert dry (pun intended) of sand.
and why go down into the earth when we could just mine asteroids?
zblaber 1 year ago
@zblaber Oh hat's great, well then lets just exploit it until there's 50% left and call it a success. How about real renewables which don't deplete massive amounts of resources...
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
@Asymmatrix I'd like to know exactly what good you think all that sand is doing otherwise...
guitarpedant 1 year ago
@guitarpedant Absorbing heat.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
@Asymmatrix Absorbing sunlight is exactly what solar panels are for! Sand, on the other hand, has a high reflectivity. I'm guessing you didn't major in physics? In any case, whatever heat the sand absorbs, it gives it back out again at night. Assuming that the reason you want to 'absorb heat' is global warming (which makes no sense anyway, because the Earth absorbing heat is the whole problem), cutting fossil fuel use via of solar power is going to do a lot more to help than some sand.
guitarpedant 1 year ago
@guitarpedant Lol I wasnt serious, jut riling up the troll. However, massive use of finite natural resources is hardly the way to go.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
@Asymmatrix I'm not automatically a troll just because I disagreed with you! Trust me, the Sahara is not about to run out of sand, not even if we entirely covered it with solar panels. The sand is deep, and solar panels are thin. Sure, sand is finite (as is everything), but there's finite and there's finite. Sand is not gold dust.
guitarpedant 1 year ago
@Asymmatrix as it is obvious that your head is so far up your butt that you need to pump in air, I shall not continue to point out the obvious, and simply say that you need to READ!
zblaber 1 year ago
@zblaber Lol dance, troll, dance. Let's just use up all our finite resources and have a big party.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
@Asymmatrix *facepalm*
Ladies and Gentlemen of the internet. I would like to hereby recognize Asymmatrix as being "mad" as evidenced by the fact he has no solid evidence to back up the horse s*** spewing from his mouth.
zblaber 1 year ago
@zblaber Nor do you. The end.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago
@Asymmatrix i'm talking about the fact that everyone else has been presenting hard facts. I do not posses a degree in quantum physics, nor do I possess one in geology. I am merely trying to point out to you that you have your head in the sand and are ignoring all of the facts. Kinda like the Tea Party, now that i think about it.
zblaber 1 year ago
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I hate this project, of all the place in the world, they had to use of the north Africa. I'm not going to let this happen, this is another ploy to take the natural resource of Africa, no good will come from this. The Sahara it not meat for solar panels, it can be recondition for planet life. This is not going to happen, find another place for your solar panels.
reubenbridges 1 year ago
@reubenbridges are you retarded ? exploit ? exploit what ? empty deserts ? exploit the sun ? YOU ARE CLEARLY RETARDED ! The north african people will even benefit from this !
chabi3000 1 year ago 33
@chabi3000 First off there is no need for name calling, Second the Sahara was not always a desert. And third this would not be good for north Africa. Of all the places in the world, It would do more harm then good. Building factories just make silicon and Africa would get nothing really in return except solar panels. Like I said before, nothing good will come from this.
reubenbridges 1 year ago
@reubenbridges i have to agree you are a retard!
chaoser69er 1 year ago
@reubenbridges Africa would gain high tech jobs and could potentially become the worlds largest exporter of energy(and the revenue that would go along with it). You dont think that would benefit North Africa?
Sotall111 1 year ago
@Sotall111
Ok if I'm wrong, I'll send a message you and everyone message a saying I was wrong. But down deep, I know I'm not wrong. They are using this area to make more money from Silicon, the solar panels are just eye candy. To make what they are doing look good, why don't all this other countries just have there own programs to fix there own energy problems? Instead of using a whole top area of a continent. If I'm wrong, they'll have to prove me wrong.
reubenbridges 1 year ago
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@reubenbridges "Africa would get nothing really in return except solar panels." Because of course, people living in African nations have no use for electricity?
guitarpedant 1 year ago
@reubenbridges If people could grow stuff in the Sahara, they would. You seem to think we have magical abilities to turn half a continent of desert into farmland, and we don't. There is no topsoil, nothing to grow anything on. On the other hand, vast amounts of power from solar arrays in the desert would mean way less fossil fuel use, which means less CO2, less mercury, less sulphur compounds etc, and of course our fossil fuel supply would last longer. What's the problem?
guitarpedant 1 year ago
@guitarpedant
No I do not have magical abilities, but you can turn a desert back into green space. Just because you put solar panels all over the north Africa, to try and cut down the use of CO2. Will still be a waste of time, the use of fossil fuels will increase. Not decrease, what then? More solar panels in more deserts, this is not about supplying the world another power source. Maybe I should do a video series on how to make desert into green space. And Dr. Strange Jealous.
reubenbridges 1 year ago
@reubenbridges I would be most interested to hear about your plan to turn an almost completely barren desert the size of the United States into farmland. And also what kind of reasoning led you to the notion that having vast amounts of solar power will *increase* our use of fossil fuels. I mean, it sounds like you're just saying anything that will justify saying that this is somehow bad.
guitarpedant 1 year ago
@guitarpedant
So I guess I have to show and prove then. And no I'm not just saying anything to make it sound bad. I'm basing everything from what seen from other companies
that continue to operate in Africa, only to take the resource for there own gain and the people suffer. If I can show you what can said can be done, then I can go and teach them how to do it. Like I told Sotall111, if I'm wrong, I'll personally write you back saying I was wrong. But they have to prove me wrong.
reubenbridges 1 year ago
@reubenbridges I agree that unjust exploitation takes place. However, in this case, even if African nations got almost nothing out of this (unlikely), they're hardly losing anything either. The Sahara is basically a wasteland. No one lives there, and no one has any use for it, resource-wise. Until now.
guitarpedant 1 year ago
@reubenbridges You are totally right. You know what happens here in good old germany? They convert perfect fertile farmland into solar panel fields. Why? Because the solar companies pay more. Effect: Food prices rise and farmland vanishes. It's exactly what they do in the 3rd world actually. They grow E10 plants on their soils so that we can drive around in our luxury cars and the local people have nothing to eat. They grow food, but we drive it in our cars.
InventorSolidworks 7 months ago
Much success with the project!
Staghausen 1 year ago
majority ive done research before you can protect the solar panels with a "dome" like shape over the panel not also only protecting the solar panel you can also increase the power consume to store with the lens as a dome into a concave lens to increase sunlight.
edeikuliu 1 year ago
@edeikuliu Oh yeah i forgot. Problem is that... people in the local area isn't gonna "submit" into this technology. For instance, its like shoving down a new culture into a new culture, they gotta start off small for the locals to get used to it, before they can surplus their economy. They gotta start small, before you start big, and use what is around you (which is also provided in the process of the plan project) Try reading "ugly american" its a good book about showing innovations to locals.
edeikuliu 1 year ago
I hope it is not a cover up plan on an attempt to find another source of oil in the area
zafar204 1 year ago
@hipster420: hahaha, yep.
stolenfat11 1 year ago
North Africa will get really wealthy really quickly from this - I hope the governments there don't abuse that wealth.
LucienZakhaev 1 year ago 2
Excuse me but I do believe that Africa sucks ass.
TemplarOfNight 1 year ago
Wonderful! How can I help/get involved?
chiheil 1 year ago
This is awesome !
Gesthrel 1 year ago
Great idea just hope we can build it before we destroy the planet with are ignorants. Regards and have a skilful life. pinge
PingeMusic 1 year ago
excellent idea.... except for the part that it's in F***ing AFRICA!!!.... Good luck.
sinblesser 1 year ago
Watch...They will get this whole project up and running then the world climate will change and the Sahara will become dense rainy swamp land.
Hipster420 1 year ago
2015 or 2050 ? This guy is a terrible announcer, with a bad accent.
Meowbay 1 year ago
good thing but im a bit skeptical.. i want to hear the whole idea.. i wish i could get my ahnds on one of the research paper.. ahmm.
edrianquintos 1 year ago
This is wonderful and I hope it gets funded.
rollsthepaul 1 year ago
I love those guyis :)
shalkana 1 year ago
planting trees around the powerplants will stop storms!
samurai3219 1 year ago
@samurai3219 that's one way but wouldn't that disrupt the Sunlight reaching the Solar Panels. Cause from what i know, trees Given more sunlight trees will grow quite a height..... and the Desert sand is too cruel, only "special" plants are able to live there.......
SlowRkers 1 year ago
Japan should really have a free green card to waltz into any place on the globe they desire. I love Japan. I just hope Algeria don't elect a retarded extremist government that issue a mandate that has them occupy the solar cells with military force or something.
KnightMD 1 year ago
hmmm...if this is successful they may be able to also reduce the intensity of the heating effect from the sun's rays. you guys know about the global warming thing right? If they used this system global warming caused by the sun itself due to pollution and the hole in the o-zone layer may be greatly reduced.
Elricchasers 1 year ago
Question is will we all live long enough to see this?
chad599abc 1 year ago
@chad599abc hmmm........I estimate thet it would take over 5 years to make a silicon factory, and a year to make huge loads of whatever random estimate of solar panels comes to six years per factory and groups of panels. the issue is wether it will be done on time and on schedule without any hitches plus wether there will be enough money to make this happen...
Elricchasers 1 year ago
@chad599abc Depending on our age, For me, Maybe yes, but for you it depends.....
SlowRkers 1 year ago
This is a very noble undertaking. I hope they succeed. Providing half of the world's energy needs while educating the people of Africa and giving them a means to a higher standard of living is just too great to express in a youtube comment.
Daemo4 1 year ago
awesome stuff!!!
SNascensionK 1 year ago
my think is how will they get around sand storms?
bigblackjr7 1 year ago
@bigblackjr7 by making some sort of Shielding device that will effectively shield the Solar Panels from the Sand.......While at that, why not make use of the Wind as well?? Sand Storms are quite windy......Make use of it
SlowRkers 1 year ago
@SlowRkers I am all for the project Slow but the sand storm factor is not going to be easy
bigblackjr7 1 year ago
@bigblackjr7 yah..... Sandstorms are known to be quite unpredictable and Destructive.........Using Solar Panels as energy.....for the World....really reminds me of Gundam 00, 1 huge Solar panel Ring around the earth to provide energy for everyone........
SlowRkers 1 year ago
@SlowRkers ah true so very true I remember that in some countries part of their elctricity came from thos special winmill like fans that produce electricity for its city.
Elricchasers 1 year ago
FUCK YES. Go Japan!
Freshman000000 1 year ago 36
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@Freshman000000 screw japan u saw what they did to pearl harbor thats why U.S.A had to drop the NUKE on them assholes hopefully they learn to not fuck with uss again .
FeaRxMASSACRREx 1 year ago
This is Awesome! I hope they will take great results from this ;)
MissBMoon 1 year ago
Why are the japanese doing this for africa? I think it's great.
Shalek 1 year ago
@Shalek not just for Africa, but rather a global setting for are new future to come.
XzongetsuX 1 year ago
Also Apollo is the God of Wisdom and Knowledge O.o :D This would give some world peace i hope :)
DraskyVanderhoff 1 year ago
Great idea
dilll1990 1 year ago
it's about time something like this landed on diginfonews
eliziergancena 1 year ago