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Old 05-25-08, 09:17 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: South Korea. Fully solar.

Works fine for small isolated communities in countries where the customers have very little in the way of electrical loads, but try it in any American city with no industrial loads, or perhaps only light industry, and the project will fail at the start.
Besides, there is next to no shortage of electricity in the USA compared to the shortage of cheap oil for our transportation needs.
Nuclear is still the answer for our electrical needs, until something else gets invented, but don't hold your breath waiting for that something else.
As for oil, the only immediate solution for that problem is conservation. Anybody carpooling yet?
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