Why doesn’t Saudi Arabia just invest heavily in desalinization? They could then grow anything they wanted within 20 miles of the coast.
They can buy our politicians, err, land cheaper.
“Why doesn’t Saudi Arabia just invest heavily in desalinization? They could then grow anything they wanted within 20 miles of the coast.”
Good point. They could expand their economy by diversifying out of oil and into ag products as an export or hell, even for internal consumption. .
Especially when they have so much cheap oil to burn AND Lockheed Martin developed a nano-particle filter that uses 10% (or 1%) of the energy as standard desalinization filters. That reduces the power needed for desalinization and it could even be integrated into existing facilities aside from the heat based ones.