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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to World News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 12 days ago

Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels

www.wired.com

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Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels

www.wired.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to World News@lemmygrad.mlEnglish · 12 days ago
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Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.

https://archive.ph/Cjmz4

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    Hoping to wake up in a world where every African state is a net exporter of electricity

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      The Sahel alone can provide enough electricity from solar to power the entire Earth.

      I didn’t do the math and I didn’t verify it, but I did read it somewhere, and the original source said Libya which isn’t a Sahel country but I assume it is true for the Sahel as well.

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        I sure hope foreign powers (ruZZian sharks) don’t cut my giant gigajoule power-line at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. /s

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    The replies on the Wired article are wild. They assume African governments are amateurs. Always going for that “at what cost” angle.

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      everybody who isn’t white is a primitive savage didn’t you know

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      at what cost

      I assume that Solar Panels made in China cost less than by the Yankees. They couldn’t compete.

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