• toofpic
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    441 year ago

    Looking at the picture, I think Forbes has no idea, what a solar thermal power plant is.

  • @nodsocket
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    11 months ago

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    • unalivejoy
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      151 year ago

      The less oil they burn, they more they can sell to the West.

      • @Wanderer@lemm.ee
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        81 year ago

        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.

        • من البحر إلى النهرOP
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          11 year ago

          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.

  • @Dehydrated
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    131 year ago

    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.

  • billwashere
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    71 year ago

    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.

  • @Rapidcreek
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    61 year ago

    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.

  • Pxtl
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    41 year ago

    Surprising, I thought thermal solar power was going the way of the dodo.