ABSTRACT

O f the sunshine that reached the earth during Page’s lecture on a day in May, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia got its full share. It is as liberally endowed with renewable energy as it is with the other kind. According to one estimate, the 865,000 square miles of Saudi Arabia receive in a single year the equivalent of all the oil, gas, and coal left on earth. If but 10 percent of this heaven-sent annual income were put to work, it would represent 75 percent of all the power all of us have used for the past one hundred years.