Your analysis seems flawed. World oil consumption rose from 85 mbpd in 2005 to 95 mbpd in 2015, with a small drop in 08 and 09 due to global recession. There has been steady demand growth. Saudi Arabia has not added production, it has refused to unilaterally slash production to prop up prices. That's not their responsibility as the low cost producer to allow more expensive producers to capture market share and income.
Solar capacity is about 20%, as power generation occurs best during sunny summer days, and none at all during long winter nights. One potential way around this is to make solar a global project along with being a local one. Massive solar farms in the US southwest along with matching sites in the Australian outback and the Sahara would give the globe two out of three producing sites at all times. Power could then be shifted around to keep the lights and the AC on at all times. solar panels produce 100 watts per square meter, a sqare km would produce 100 megawatts. 10,000 sq km would produce a 1000 gigawatts. The US energy grid produces about 500 gigawatts at any one time. These global solar parks would work along with local solar/wind/hydro/nuclear to make fossil fuels unnecessary.
Isn't the population of the Palestinian territories 3.5 million or so? If you add that to the 1.2 million Palestinians in Israel isn't the total closer to 5 million?
Your analysis seems flawed. World oil consumption rose from 85 mbpd in 2005 to 95 mbpd in 2015, with a small drop in 08 and 09 due to global recession. There has been steady demand growth. Saudi Arabia has not added production, it has refused to unilaterally slash production to prop up prices. That's not their responsibility as the low cost producer to allow more expensive producers to capture market share and income.
Solar capacity is about 20%, as power generation occurs best during sunny summer days, and none at all during long winter nights. One potential way around this is to make solar a global project along with being a local one. Massive solar farms in the US southwest along with matching sites in the Australian outback and the Sahara would give the globe two out of three producing sites at all times. Power could then be shifted around to keep the lights and the AC on at all times. solar panels produce 100 watts per square meter, a sqare km would produce 100 megawatts. 10,000 sq km would produce a 1000 gigawatts. The US energy grid produces about 500 gigawatts at any one time. These global solar parks would work along with local solar/wind/hydro/nuclear to make fossil fuels unnecessary.
Isn't the population of the Palestinian territories 3.5 million or so? If you add that to the 1.2 million Palestinians in Israel isn't the total closer to 5 million?