They do melt in the heat and require cooling. It is 35C at night and much hotter during the day, and it is hot and humid all year in the coastal cities where the majority lives.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/07/12/solar-module-cooling-techniques-for-the-desert/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1018363921000453

The temperature of the panels will be hotter than the air around it.

They could just use civilian nuclear like neighbor UAE, a proven technology that’s known to work. I don’t understand your objection to the use of nuclear power. China is now building them fast and cheap.

Would you be okay if Saudi Arabia accepted the US terms and only bought ready fuel from the US a la UAE?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-08-28/china-s-fast-and-cheap-nuclear-gives-its-climate-ambitions-a-boost

KSA has been big on solar announcements, slow on completion.

Because the photovoltaic cells do melt in the heat, they actually need to be actively cooled. Saudi Arabia did build a solar thermal plant to power a factory.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2022/06/02/worlds-biggest-solar-plant-to-decarbonize-aluminum-industry-in-saudi-arabia/

I guarantee you that Saudi Arabia needs the electricity. Cooling a house when it is 50C and humid isn’t cheap. Photovoltaic solar decreases in efficiency past 25C. Saudi Arabia currently has one of the highest CO2 emissions per capita. It has plenty of uranium that it can cheaply use to keep the air conditioners on, but you would rather them burn gas and oil instead despite all the guarantees and willingness to cooperate.

https://www.mees.com/2024/3/22/power-water/power-surge-saudi-arabias-electricity-demand-soars-to-new-heights/77954bf0-e863-11ee-8ef9-8b17479eb3dd

Why not both?

The Portal already exists just make it play games as well as being for remote play.

Even if Saudi Arabia normalized and became super friendly to Israel, it is law that no one should be allowed to match it in the region as far as the US is concerned. Saudi Arabia is never getting nuclear weapons with US blessing, it can’t even civilian nuclear energy without the US insisting that it buys the fuel from it.

Though this is a non-issue, if the program is purely civilian which the Saudi government is committed to.

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I disagree with you on nuclear energy, it is viable, reliable and affordable.

Saudi Arabia can get the technology from elsewhere, China is probably further ahead now than the US. The problem is who is going to stop the US or Israel from targeting them?

Anyways we are going off topic and I don’t share your suspicions of Saudi Arabia not when worse global actors (Israel) already have civilian and military nuclear capabilities.

What Saudi Arabia wanted is the ability to mine and enrich its own uranium for civilian purposes. Biden wanted instead a deal like what the UAE got where it buys the fuel ready.

Saudi Arabia has stressed that it wants its program to be civilian-only and is more than willing to have UN inspectors inspect it. The US Congress wouldn’t allow such a thing because Saudi Arabia hasn’t normalized with Israel and even if it does who to say that the monarchy will never be replaced a la Iran? UAE despite normalization, Israel won’t even permit it to acquire the F-35.

The US wanted to rid itself of as much English influence as possible, she even changed the spelling. Odd that she held on to Imperial.

The US has green lit this, which makes their objection to Russian annexation of Crimea highly hypocritical.

One of us

1. Gross. I can’t imagine there’s any appeal to the brand.
2. I wonder what the projects will be and why now?

This somehow makes me want to go and order a burger

Dystopian

Adding my vote of confidence to them

I treat English spelling like Chinese characters. How you pronounce is at best a hint on how to write.

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Just like a piñata, you have to hit it for the candies to fall down

This is universal. I used to blame particular education systems or styles, but apparently they all are bad.