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We can shift production from port cities with expensive energy to port cities with cheap energy.


A good example is aluminum production in Iceland, which has a disproportionally huge aluminum refining industry (it makes almost as much aluminum as the whole of USA despite having literally 1000 times smaller population) simply due to the availability of cheap energy and access to ocean shipping.


Namibia may become the Iceland of solar energy. The desert comes right down to the ocean.




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