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Originally Posted by photon
I didn't read it (just found it via search), does it talk about transmission at all? Sure being able to generate a ton of power from a relatively small area (globally speaking) is good, but unless you can get it where it's needed...
High temperature super conductors and (or maybe or) order-of-magnitude battery energy density improvements.. then we could talk about paving a desert with solar.
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I'd say that's the primary topic of the paper - High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmission. Its an area I don't know much about, so the paper has sucked me in! Lots of very interesting points, my impression of the paper is that it is assuming that the solar capacity is available in Northern Africa, so they're looking at HVDC transmission across the Mediterranean at three different points.
Flag it for reading when you have time! I'm only about 1/4 into it and have already learned a lot.
Its too bad I don't read German because a lot of the references are published in that language and lots of the figures are annotated in German as well. It's not too hard to discern what is being presented though.