With the cost of oil skyrocketing, Saudi Arabia is grabbing the attention of a growing number of European leaders, who are embracing an ambitious proposal to harvest this solar energy for their nations, Sify.com reports.

In the wake of the first Gulf War, the U.S. Army assessed Saudi Arabia's solar energy resource potential in a classified effort to determine how oil fires had affected the region.

The results were clear and surprising. In addition to being a vast petroleum repository, the desert nation was also the heart of the most potentially productive region on the planet for harvesting power from the sun. In other words, Saudi Arabia was the Saudi Arabia of solar energy.

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