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Originally Posted by Archy
Thermal solar cannot be base load because the sun's intensity varies throughout the day and year and is zero at night.
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I was under the impession that thermal solar could infact be baseload and run 24/7, well, at least the thermal-technology that went to China....
..... as it worked by super-heating large quantities of saline which had enough thermal inertia to make turbine-steam until the next heating cycle.