How many solar cells do we need to light the world until 2030?

ArabiaWeather.com - How many solar cells do we need to light the world? This question was answered by the two experts in solar energy, Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monin, that planting solar panels on an area of about half a million kilometers or the size of a country like Spain is enough to light the entire globe until 2030.

The two experts said that they used figures from the US Department of Energy to find out the amount of energy sufficient to meet the needs of the globe during the next 15 years.

The two experts added that if the area required for solar panels is divided into 5 thousand regions, this means that each country needs to establish 25 "farms" of solar cell panels, an average of 10 kilometers per country.

The two experts touched on the pivotal role of the UAE in the field of clean energy, especially in light of the intention to generate 1,500 megawatts of solar energy by 2020, and indicated that planting 10 kilometers of these cells is sufficient to meet all the country's energy needs.

The two experts pointed out that 170,000 square kilometers of forests are destroyed annually, and that if solar cell farms are established at the same pace, the project to illuminate the globe with solar energy will be possible within 3 years.