New research shows densely populated countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa could harvest effectively unlimited energy from solar panels floating on calm tropical seas near the equator.

New research shows densely populated countries in Southeast Asia and West Africa could harvest effectively unlimited energy from solar panels floating on calm tropical seas near the equator.

  • pizzaiolo
    4·
    11 months ago

    For countries in the equator it’d probably make more sense to have land-based solar panels, since they’re cheap. African countries probably have the land to spare.

    • MrMakabar
      4·
      11 months ago

      Africa is huge and West Africa is pretty densly populated.