Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@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 …
Naive question: How is the political situation between all these African countries? Are they “good enough friends” to make this work on from a political point of view?
I have no idea if this is actually possible, but if it ends loadshedding in South Africa I’m all for it!!!
Sounds good. If they actually manage to build it, it might even become possible for Africa to start selling solar energy to Europe.
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.
Indeed, there are huge issues with that idea, but at least now there’s a plan to take a step in that direction. Who knows if we ever get there though.
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.
That would be ideal
Would love to see this! Without the influence of any foreign government interest… Ya know like how has been the case for the last 200+ years now
spindrift@lemmy.world 1 year ago
China once again investing in african infrastructure.