They can still go all out on solar, it’s not like they’re pumping all that oil for themselves only
Comment on An unusually wide adoption of rooftop solar in Aleppo, Syria.
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
When your nation falls apart and your city becomes an extensive warzone for years, the main power grid probably isn’t top notch. But the sun works just fine!
If it wasn’t for oil making the middle east insanely rich, imagine what they could do with solar
huppakee@piefed.social 2 months ago
YellowParenti@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
there is the idea of exporting solar from Morocco to UK.
There’s others where it’s proposed to build a a high voltage line from Morocco to Spain, France, Germany. Eventually, they’ll upgrade the grid to be able to move power from one region to another.
Same thing in the states, southern states generate for the north in the winter and in the summer the north to the south to help with high demand from AC.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Before the Arab Spring there was even a more ambitious plan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec#/media/File:DESERT…
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Long distance power transmission also effectively makes the day length longer, lessening the need for storage.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2 months ago
The western countries are just needlessly delaying energy independence. They are hostile to life itself.
keepthepace@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
We elect conservatives, they are afraid of change. It is as simple as that.
antrosapien@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
If god would like us all to have unlimited free energy, wouldn’t he put a giant nuclear reactor in sky