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Originally Posted by drylander
Iceland isn't the best example due to low population an low h-intensity electricity using production system. I guess we will see when they shut down the coal fired stations here.
Pete
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Is the fact it actually works for the Icelanders...who BTW have free thermal solar heating....the reason it's not "the best example"
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Oz has sniffed at thermal generation from Hot Dry Rocks and Thermal Solar
(the latter team from UNSW had a proposal that could have powered 90% of the entire eastern seaboard for a 1/10th of the cost of the NBN) was flipped off by Bob Carr and unsurprisingly went offshore to China.
Thermal solar via superheating large quantities of saline solution (think Olympic swimming pool tank size) with sunshine, then running a steam turbine 24/7 courtesy its thermal inertia is an easy solution to baseload.