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A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries (techxplore.com)
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A proposal to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries::A team of economists and engineers from China, Turkey and Nigeria has published a proposal based on simulations to build a sub-Saharan Africa electrical grid across 12 countries. In their paper published in the journal Scientific ...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a project "Xlinks" to build an HVDC cable from Morrocco to the UK for this purpose. Who knows if it will succeed but it does have real backing.

[โ€“] AstralJaeger 3 points 1 year ago

Thats one hell of a distance, I really need to look more of these projects. But in my corner of europe people like to block these projects even tho they are so important