Saudis Look to Desert Sun to Provide as Much Energy as Oil

摘要

Saudi Arabia hopes in the future to produce as much energy from the sun as it now does from oil on the back of increased research and technological breakthroughs, Oil Minister Ali Naimi says. "In Saudi Arabia we are known not just for the resources that are below the ground, but also another important resource from the heavens: sunlight," Naimi told a symposium last week at the new King Abdullah University for Science and Technology, of which he is chairman (IOD Sep.24,p3).