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Re:One-night stands will be illegal at the 2022 World Cup in... by Taikonerd on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @09:31AM (#31835770)
> we learned in geography class, that one could power the whole EU, if we occupied some area of the Sahara desert with solar panels

I sometimes hear that too. The YouTube channel "Real Engineering" did a video about the idea: [1] The TLDR is: the Sahara definitely gets enough sun, but transmitting the power into Europe would be hard.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OpM_zKGE4o

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