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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by sunshinesnacks on Sunday August 11, 2024 @10:22PM (#41220707)
Several of the largest solar plants in the world are in deserts.

Edit: I think that all of the top 5 largest are in deserts. Maybe more.

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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by RandomThoughts3 on Monday August 12, 2024 @03:03AM (#41221865)
Yes, because there is a lot of space there and the sun shines a lot. But they are not more efficient that installation outside of deserts which was the claim made in the comment I was replying to.
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Re:China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal by sunshinesnacks on Monday August 12, 2024 @11:38PM (#41231983)
Maybe not more efficient, but there’s usually more solar resource in the desert, and the net is usually more electricity produced.

See the executive summary linked at the bottom of this page: https://emp.lbl.gov/publications/utility-scale-solar-2023-ed....

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