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Solar and wind power simply don’t work - not here, not anywhere : Comments

By Keith DeLacy, published 23/6/2016

On the basis of evidence everywhere we could easily double the price of electricity and get nowhere near the 50 per cent target.

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"The problem we have in Australia is when we talk renewable energy we are talking wind and solar only - low value, expensive, unreliable, high capital cost, land hungry, intermittent energy."

Solar is unreliable and land hungy? Is the author aware of just how much of this continent is uninhabitable desert? Pave it all with solar cells! Use the excess power to run the hydroelectric dams backwards so as to create an overnight energy reservoir. Problem solved.
Posted by PaulMurrayCbr, Tuesday, 28 June 2016 4:46:45 PM
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