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The Global Solar and Green Belt: Earth's Rotation as a Natural Battery for Transcontinental Renewable Energy Transmission
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A solar energy research paper on The Global Solar and Green Belt: Earth's Rotation as a Natural Battery for Transcontinental Renewable Energy Transmission.
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This paper presents the Global Solar and Green Belt (GSGB), a technically grounded proposal for a transcontinental photovoltaic corridor spanning approximately 17,500 km across the Sahel, Middle East, Central Asia, and East Asia, interconnected via Ultra High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) transmission infrastructure. The central thesis is that Earth's axial rotation functions as a natural temporal load-balancing mechanism, enabling near-baseload renewable power delivery without large-scale electrochemical storage. Drawing on verified data from IRENA, IEA, BloombergNEF, and peer-reviewed literature, the paper demonstrates technical and economic viability with commercially available technology. Total investment is estimated at US$ 12–20 trillion over 30 years, equivalent to 0.4–0.6% of annual global GDP. The proposal directly addresses SDG 7 for 760 million people without electricity access and 2 billion dependent on biomass combustion.
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