On 25/09/12 11:40, Tim Streater wrote:
In article
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harry wrote:

With a renewable energy source you might need oil to build it and then
nothing.

Not nothing, harry. You need backup for when it's dark or there is no wind.

Possibly the Aussies might make solar work with their molten salt heat
storage, which powers the gennies overnight. But then they have billyuns
of sq miles of desert and *reliable* sunshine. And it still remains to
be seen how it compares to nuclear, neither am I sure how well it'd work
in winter.


Is that anything like http://www.archimedesolarenergy.com/ The new
factory was in the same half finished state this summer as it was a year
ago.

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djc