The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km2 (77,000 sq mi) and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan. It is the world's 17th largest desert, and the world's 9th largest subtropical desert.
2.5 acres of land can generate 1MW.
Area of Thar desert: 5,00,00,000 Acer's (200,000 km2)
Hence power generated: 2,00,00,000 MW
Power demand in India: 350000MW
Power demand in whole world: 1200000MW
i.e 57 times the energy that is required to power India and 16 times the all world combined can be generated.
So forget about India, you can generate enough power to power 15 other planets like earth.
If it is so …. Why we are not implementing it?
Wrong presumption: As and when we say desert we immediately think of high temperatures hence high solar power generation. In fact which is wrong. High pannel temperature results lower efficiency of the solar pannel. Hence generated power will be less.
- So high temperatures in desert doesn't ensure high power yeald.
- Construction cost: It is highly unreliable to go for any construction in the middle of the desert. Imagine how deep the foundation has to be to hold the solar pannel at one place in the sea of sand.
Source:- Wikipedia & thesouravbindal
