Elon Musk’s foray into right-wing politics hasn’t dimmed his love for solar power. It’s a fandom he shares with Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, who exchanged friendly messages with the world’s richest man after Musk expressed admiration for Willow, Google’s breakthrough quantum computing chip. During the exchange, Musk noted humans are not at all close to harnessing all the energy available on earth, and said blanketing deserts and arid regions in solar panels could roughly quintuple the globe’s power supply.
“Indeed,” Pichai replied. “We should scale solar so much more, amazing that we keep looking at alternatives when the most obvious path is staring at our eyes, literally!”
