{"id":82495,"date":"2018-09-11T07:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/using-82-terawatts-of-solar-and-wind-to-green-the-sahara-as-a-side-effect-would-cost-at-least-82-trillion"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:28:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:28:02","slug":"using-82-terawatts-of-solar-and-wind-to-green-the-sahara-as-a-side-effect-would-cost-at-least-82-trillion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/using-82-terawatts-of-solar-and-wind-to-green-the-sahara-as-a-side-effect-would-cost-at-least-82-trillion","title":{"rendered":"Using 82 Terawatts of solar and wind to Green the Sahara as a side effect would cost at least $82 trillion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/using-82-terawatts-of-solar-and-wind-to-green-the-sahara-as-a-side-effect-would-cost-at-least-82-trillion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>$82 Trillion to convert a desert to land that could grow crops to help feed the world\u2026is it worth it?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers simulated the effects of around 79 terawatts of solar panels and 3 terawatts of wind turbines. Computer modeling looked at the effect of covering 20 percent of the largest desert on the planet in solar panels and installing three million wind turbines.<\/p>\n<p>There would be 16X the rain in the aridest parts of the Sahara, and double that of the Sahel.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that massive amounts of solar and wind power does directly alter the climate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/09\/using-82-terawatts-of-solar-and-wind-to-green-the-sahara-as-a-side-effect-would-cost-at-least-82-trillion.html\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2018\/09\/using-82-terawatts-of-...llion.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$82 Trillion to convert a desert to land that could grow crops to help feed the world\u2026is it worth it? Researchers simulated the effects of around 79 terawatts of solar panels and 3 terawatts of wind turbines. Computer modeling looked at the effect of covering 20 percent of the largest desert on the planet in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1523,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-computing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82691,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82495\/revisions\/82691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}