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There's a proposal to use solar power in the desert to create pure Hydrogen gas via electrolysis, then fill autonomous blimps with that hydrogen to ship it to where energy is needed. You wouldn't want to fly over populated areas, but otherwise seems like a feasible idea to transport that solar power.

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For that you'd need to use kilotons of water a day, which is usually hard in a desert.

It could work on an arid sea shore though, say, in North or South Africa. But there seem to be closer-by large consumers, and maybe producing freshwater would bring more value than producing hydrogen.

> you'd need to use kilotons of water a day, which is usually hard in a desert

North Africa, India, Australia and other have deserts right next to the ocean.

There is absolutely no need for deserts to site solar farms, so the premise is nonsense.

Solar farms are wholly compatible with agriculture. Look up "agrivoltaics".

There are currently experiments in europe, to combine the too. Turns out alot of plants just need 2 hrs of sun and shut down after too save on evoparation. Meaning 35 % of the sunlight needed and the rest as solar seems feasable.

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