I do not like the Kingdom, but concentrated solar thermal power is pretty cool. I think the tower design is prettier, but the GlassPoint website makes a good case for their enclosed trough design.
World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant To Be Built In Saudi Arabia
Submitted 10 months ago by PanArab@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work 10 months ago
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
nodsocket@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That will never happen. Saudi Arabia isn’t going to be the leader of anything once all its customers start charging their cars with windmills.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Saudi Arabia isn’t going to be the leader of anything once all its customers start charging their cars with windmills.
Hopefully
PanArab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dream on. We are supplying BMW with Lithium and we are establishing EV and battery supply chain and manufacturing.
800XL@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And the western world is stupid beyond hope if they let it happen again.
PanArab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It is happening again
PanArab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We have been leading you from one dependency to another since frankincense ;)
nodsocket@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ironic. Saudia Arabia would be about as poor as Afghanistan if it wasn’t for burning oil.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The less oil they burn, they more they can sell to the West.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 10 months 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.
PanArab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But we wont be as industrious. God truly gives with one hand and takes with another.
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months 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@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
PanArab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Surprising, I thought thermal solar power was going the way of the dodo.
PanArab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No, it is practical where it gets too hot for photovoltaic
toofpic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Looking at the picture, I think Forbes has no idea, what a solar thermal power plant is.
Pxtl@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m shocked, shocked to learn that Forbes doesn’t know anything about green energy.
PanArab@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes, but it is still getting built. solarpaces.org/saudi-factory-to-mass-produce-glas…
toofpic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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.
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s probably AI generated.