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Old 12-07-2011, 06:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Bassnut View Post
Yes, despite a nation wide wind power grid in the UK (to hopefully average a good output) a few days before xmas one year, 2008 or 9 I think, output dropped to less than 1% of capacity. A joke. It buryed predicated wind patterns over large areas in one foul swoop.
Interesting! Sadly Oz politicians sniffed at thermal solar some years back, and predictably lost the technology to China. A UNSW team did the ground work and for about $ 9 billion could have built a base load system that would have covered the entire eastern seaboards electricity load.....
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