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Old 10-25-2009, 07:48 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Also anybody who says 'solar can't handle baseload power' because the sun doesn't shine at night hasn't thought too deeply about it. Electricity is hard to store in very large amounts but heat is less hard to store. There are already solar thermal power plants online that can keep running after the sun goes down because they store heat in big tanks of salt.

There's also the idea of solar updraft towers, which can run at night. Inhabitat » Solar Updraft Towers to Generate Food and Energy
And if you think it would never work guess what; they built one in Spain back in the 1980s. Video Explains How A Solar Tower Works : TreeHugger

If you need more info; Solar updraft tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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