Giant desert solar farms might have unintended climate consequences
The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power — the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon — the raw material for the semiconductors from which solar cells are made — and never short of sunlight. In fact, the 10 largest solar plants around the world are all in deserts or dry regions.
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