The Saudi Arabian people have by popular vote decided to make a strategic shift to solar energy. Starting from the villages, these will eventually spread out to cover most of the desert. Owned by the municipality, it is guaranteed that its benefits, in money as well as energy, are to the people.
Hereby, the political dependency on oil will become redundant. The oil wells will be left unused, it will be decided by future generations whether they best suit human needs by exploiting or by neglecting them.
Biologists study the possibility to put water under the solar cells to generate a rotting process, by which enough organic material will accumulate to grow a sustainable ecology.
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