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The Crazy, Brilliant Plan For A Huge Hydropower Plant In South America’s Driest Desert

A solar farm will pump seawater up the Andes mountains, so renewable power can be available day and night.

Stuck between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, the Atacama Desert is one of the driest places on Earth. But the area’s weird geography means that it will soon be home to a massive hydropower plant—the first step in a new system that could theoretically provide all of South America with 100% renewable energy.

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