So, what yah smokin?
Everyplace has nighttime. No sun. It doesn’t matter how shiny it is during the day, folks need lights on at night.
Until there is an efficient, cost-effective means to store energy during night, solar is no more than peak-hour load following generator. But, not one salesman sells it that way. Which is the tell that it is all a lie.
There have been numerous attempts to generate power in NAfrica and ship it to EU. All fail on economics of transmission.
Then how do homes with solar panels have power at night?
As mentioned above, solar panels produce no electricity at night. But they tend to produce extra power during the day when the sun is out. In order to balance things out, and keep the electricity running after dark, solar customers use either solar battery banks to store energy or net metering.
Solar battery storage
The concept behind solar energy storage is simple. Most solar systems are intentionally designed to produce more power than your home needs during the daytime. The surplus power generated during the day is stored in a solar battery solution such as the Tesla Powerwall 2.
At night, when your solar panels are in sleep mode, you can use the stored energy held by the battery system to power your home.
https://www.solarreviews.com/blog/do-solar-panels-work-on-cloudy-days-or-at-night
“There have been numerous attempts to generate power in NAfrica and ship it to EU. All fail on economics of transmission.”
More than just transmission - also, water access, people who tend to be, how do you say, ‘lively’, dust/sand storms, and the possibility of having the investment seized by the next government.
As to transmission, I suspect that part wouldn’t be too difficult to overcome (at least in North Africa), considering the dollar numbers we’re talking about. The other areas are even easier.
But why should a place awash in oil and natural gas, the Middle East, bother with solar/wind?
Don't smoke.
Never smoked in my life.
Until there is an efficient, cost-effective means to store energy during night, solar is no more than peak-hour load following generator
There is
See #92.
There have been numerous attempts to generate power in NAfrica and ship it to EU. All fail on economics of transmission
That doesn't prove or disprove anything. It's not about shipping electricity to other countries. Its about producing energy efficiently/cost effectively for your own lodgings/city/country use.