Covering Sahara desert with solar plants may increase cloud cover in surrounding regions

Researchers in China have assessed the impact of using up to 50% of the Sahara desert for the deployment of large scale solar power plants and have found these may impact the global cloud cover through disturbed atmospheric teleconnections. This, in turn, would impact solar power generation itself in North Africa, Southern Europe, the Southern Arabian Peninsula, India, North Asia, and even Eastern Australia.An international research team has investigated the potential impact of deploying photovoltaic solar farms in the Sahara Desert on atmospheric circulation and global cloud cover in an effort ...

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