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World’s Biggest Solar Thermal Plant To Be Built In Saudi Arabia (www.forbes.com)
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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When complete, the 1,500-megawatt facility

What's that? 1.5 Gigawatts? Doc’s DeLorean, took 1.21 gigawatts (GW) of power to travel through time years ago. Count me as unimpressed.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

In the current list [yes photovoltaic and not thermal], that would theoretically make it the 8th largest solar power plant in the world, and this plant is meant to power an aluminum mill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photovoltaic_power_stations