Looking at the picture, I think Forbes has no idea, what a solar thermal power plant is.
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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I'm shocked, shocked to learn that Forbes doesn't know anything about green energy.
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.
It’s probably AI generated.
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.
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