L4sBotJul 26, 2023

A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries

https://lemmy.world/post/2185028

A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries - Lemmy.world

A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries::A team of economists and engineers from China, Turkey and Nigeria has published a proposal based on simulations to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries. In their paper published in the journal Scientific …

Show threadHamartiogonicJul 26, 2023
Sounds good. If they actually manage to build it, it might even become possible for Africa to start selling solar energy to Europe.
Show threadAstralJaegerJul 26, 2023
The distance is still a killer for that, it would either require to build an AC line from Morocco to Spain, a highly politically charged region or a high voltage dc line from Tunisia to Italy, which is quite the distance to cover.
Show threadSerpentJul 26, 2023
There is a project “Xlinks” to build an HVDC cable from Morrocco to the UK for this purpose. Who knows if it will succeed but it does have real backing.
Show threadAstralJaeger
Thats one hell of a distance, I really need to look more of these projects. But in my corner of europe people like to block these projects even tho they are so important
Jul 26, 2023 at 10:18amWeb