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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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[–] n00b001 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Transmitting and storing the electricity is going to be tough

Why not use the elec in Africa to create hydrogen from salt water?

Store it if needed Ship it in pipes (easier than electricity in powerlines) Ship it in cylinders

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a pretty good option too. Transporting hydrogen is pretty exciting, so I wonder if there would better form instead. Maybe some chemist out there could point out some obvious way to use the electricity to make a chemical compound more suited to this purpose. Hydrogen is really nice once you start converting it back to energy, but while in transit it has some highly concerning properties.