Can Spain make Elon Musk’s solar energy dream a reality?

BARCELONA, Spain — While visiting Germany last month, the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, proffered unsolicited advice to European leaders.”Spain should build a massive solar array,” he tweeted on Apr. 4. “Could power all of Europe.”Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez promptly responded. “We’re already implementing most ambitious plan towards efficient & sustainable energy system,” he tweeted at Musk. “Come and see. We welcome investors in Spain.”While prompting 66,000 likes and 10,000 retweets, Musk’s tweet also elicited its fair share of eye-rolling from those who wondered when the Tesla CEO (and Twitter’s likely new owner) had also become a European energy expert.”For Spain to power all of Europe makes no sense,” Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, director of the Jacques Delors Energy Centre in Paris, told Yahoo NewsBut after Moscow shut off Gazprom’s gas spigot…

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