Looking at the picture, I think Forbes has no idea, what a solar thermal power plant is.
Yes, but it is still getting built. https://www.solarpaces.org/saudi-factory-to-mass-produce-glasspoints-solar-steam-technology/
Oh, sure, I’m not arguing with that. I only meant they didn’t read the word “thermal”, which means that’s entirely different from photovoltaic technology.
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that Forbes doesn’t know anything about green energy.
It’s probably AI generated.
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Ironic. Saudia Arabia would be about as poor as Afghanistan if it wasn’t for burning oil.
The less oil they burn, they more they can sell to the West.
I assure you they have no issue with that.
They could probably double their output if they wanted. But they don’t, they want high prices not more oil.
Saudi Arabia has a policy to reduce oil consumption locally. The government subsidizes power to the people, so if solar/wind is cheaper they will be adopted as it will save the government money.
But we wont be as industrious. God truly gives with one hand and takes with another.
A Saudi government official once publicly admitted that they want to “lead western countries from one dependency into another”. Instead of buying oil from Saudi Arabia, we will buy overpriced hydrogen that will unnecessarily be transported across the world from this authoritarian shithole. This is the exact reason, why we need investments into renewable energy in our home countries, instead of importing it and being dependent on this shitty dictatorship.
That will never happen. Hydrogen is far too expensive to transport and use compared to generating electricity. Saudi Arabia isn’t going to be the leader of anything once all its customers start charging their cars with windmills.
Saudi Arabia isn’t going to be the leader of anything once all its customers start charging their cars with windmills.
Hopefully
Dream on. We are supplying BMW with Lithium and we are establishing EV and battery supply chain and manufacturing.
And the western world is stupid beyond hope if they let it happen again.
It is happening again
We have been leading you from one dependency to another since frankincense ;)
Honestly this seems pretty cool. Saudis realizing fossil fuels aren’t an unlimited resource so they use the other thing they have, desert…. Lots of uninterrupted solar energy.
When complete, the 1,500-megawatt facility
What’s that? 1.5 Gigawatts? Doc’s DeLorean, took 1.21 gigawatts (GW) of power to travel through time years ago. Count me as unimpressed.
In the current list [yes photovoltaic and not thermal], that would theoretically make it the 8th largest solar power plant in the world, and this plant is meant to power an aluminum mill
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations
Surprising, I thought thermal solar power was going the way of the dodo.
No, it is practical where it gets too hot for photovoltaic
