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I Sold the Sun to the Saudis by Egon N. AliOglu Al Sudairi, Ph.D. (eBooks)
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Tags:solar, Saudi Arabia, architecture, energy, entrepreneur, oil, technology, electric, renewal energy, alternative energy, photovoltaics, oil crisis, Biographies, eBooks
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Spurred into action after the 1973 oil embargo, entrepreneur Egon N. AliOglu embarked on a quest to bring solar energy to the American public. Largely ignored by the business sector and ridiculed by his architectural colleagues for his progressive ideas, in 1980 he was offered the chance to teach solar photovoltaics to students at King Faisal University in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Over the next eight years AliOglu would find his pioneering PV technology embraced by the oil-rich Saudis whose controversial, yet often magical, culture revolved around the rising and setting of the desert sun. Offering unique insight into the history, society, and dogma of a culture rarely viewed by foreigners, I Sold the Sun to the Saudis poses the question: where would the U.S. be today if we, like the Saudis thirty years ago, had embraced solar electric technology and renewable energy applications for use in conjunction with-not in competition to-fossil fuels?
