Solar Mirage?

Why not just tap the Btu's off of whatever they're smoking?

Two problems they are probably taking into account, dust storms, and dust in the air, solar panels efficiency drops about 1/3 due to dirty collector surface.

I read this statement in one of technical papers ,"19th century was the age of coal and the 20th century is the age of oil and 21^st century will be the age of the sun". It is a good initiative. We look forward to hear good news to use more renewable energies in coming days to save planet earth.

Silicon from Sahara sand will not at all meet the specs for photovoltaics.

This will result in metallurgical grade silicon (98% purity) used to produce transformer steel. Cost is near 1$/Kg

So there is a necessity of adding a leaching facility: too expensive, acids and water needed.

There is existing good and naturally clean silica in various places around the world.

This is used in glass-making (highly transparent glass needs low residuals), not only for optical grades.

To avoid the shading effects of dust storms the plant would need a place near the seaside and provisions taken to clean the surfaces by ? seawater after heavy contamination.

To provide protection against sand-storms with severe sandblasting effects damaging surfaces within hours there seems not to exist any solution.

Go with this activity to an island in the sun and beware of hurricanes.

RHABE

It sounds like a good time to build that man-made Sahara River.They could use

Soliel mirrored Panels. and They could build Buildings using sandblasted formed

glass bricks and rebar and de-salienation Plants for the Ocean water .ds

Yes, I too think this can, eventally, be another way to economically multi-task the (real estate) ...