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Saudi Arabia, the world’s leading oil producer, has just built a huge solar power plant. Is the country going "green"–or are they running out of oil? They plan to use it to generate one third of their electricity needs by 2032.

Saudi Arabia and the other Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf contain around one-fifth of the planet’s oil reserves. The Saudis plan to spend at least $109 billion over the next 20 years on a solar power, as the country moves toward a post-oil future.

The Solar Daily quotes solar expert Mark Robson as saying, "This could be the world’s next renewable energy center."
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It’s happened before: In 1859, sunspots erupted, causing sparks in telegraph offices that set paper on fire. Today, 150 years later, we are much MORE "wired," and sun flares are much more dangerous.

Satellites would be disabled. GPS and radio signals would be scrambled. Electricity grids could burn out, plunging the areas where the flares hit into darkness. Depending on the amount of damage, these outages could last intermittently for years.
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The British Royal Academy of Engineering has completed a study of the UK power grid showing that it is relatively well prepared to weather a solar superstorm–but the opposite is true in the United States.

It turns out that explosive eruptions of energy from the sun are fairly common. In BBC News, Jonathan Amos quotes the UK study as saying that If a solar superstorm struck the Earth, the effects on the UK would be "challenging but not cataclysmic."

He quotes space engineer Keith Ryden as saying, "Fortunately, satellites are already designed to deal with a lot of this space weather."
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How will the world end? It may not end today, but it WILL end someday. After Noah’s ark finally reached land, God promised Noah that he would not flood the earth again, that it would be "the fire next time," and despite the rising ocean levels due to glacier melt, Whitley Strieber thinks this may be true. Read all about it in his new e-book!read more