eli5 Why is there no giant solar farm in Australia?

Question

My cursory Google says that it’s not impossible. So why?

EDIT: Answer seems to be that (politics aside) practically it’s cost prohibitive and the tech can’t transfer the energy over the distance required.

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Answer 1

Want to cry?

I can’t find it but, about a decade ago around earth day a college out out a global map that they a lot land to the best match of green energy.

And they only use non-farmable land.

And land not deadly populated or desirable at this time to people but, within range to make it work.

If they filled it in, at current population growth it gave us totally green energy the whole world…until about 2153 (I think, give or take a few years decade since I read it after all)