Joke apart, how would they make money with solar energy? Oil is a very limited resources that can be transported very easily. Every country in the world needs oil but only a few country can supply it so the business model is extremely straight forward: export oil to the countries that has the money to buy it.

Now what is the business model with solar energy? Every country in the world has sun and electricity is hard to export over long distance so what are they doing with it ?

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can do anything, from data centers to any industrial production line. At worst they recycle aluminum.

Not every country has that much sun and the space. You don't want to clear forests or farmland for solar energy.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cost of running a data centre in the desert would become cost prohibitive at the drawing board stage.

[–] trailing9@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Link it with desalination and it becomes an advantage.

[–] Rayleigh@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Hydrogen Production would be the logical thing.