eli5 Why is there no giant solar farm in Australia?

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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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If I recall correctly there are solar farms and there are plans to build many many more in the north.

It takes time to build these things and solar used to be awful at producing energy.

They plan to be a big exporter of hydrogen, so I think a lot of the solar will go towards that

EDIT: if anyone happens to have western Australia’s map of the planned solar farms, I’d love to track it down.

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