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Response to kristopher (Reply #15)

Mon Apr 9, 2012, 11:06 PM

18. You don't understand the main issue here

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When the fucking sun sets you have no solar power! When the Santa Anna winds calm, again, no fucking power. How do you fucking supply power to Southern fucking California under those conditions?

You either have to store the power, a technology which we do not yet have, or you have to provide the power using another technology.

If you cannot provide another source which neither adds CO2 to the atmosphere or provides the ability to store energy for when it is needed, you are just talking B.S.

These are the technological issues we have to solve. If it can be done without nuke power, so much the better. I just don't see any tech that can do it.

I would welcome your response to either the storage or the 24 hour generation issue. Because we're not going to get it done without both.

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