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1. As is the case around the world, the solar industry, no matter how subsidized,
Thu May 17, 2012, 06:28 PM
May 2012

will fail in Saudia Arabia, just as it has failed everywhere else in the world.

Europe in particular has well over one hundred billion investing in this toxicological nightmare and can't even produce as much energy as 3 smallish gas plants.

The worst part is that the solar industry would collapse, in a New York second, without it's pals in the fracking/gas industry.

Of course Saudi Arabia can easily afford to throw a few hundred billion down this rabbit hole.

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