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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (57428)12/22/2004 12:59:17 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Re: I also like the idea of planting Australia in pine trees, and photovoltaic panels, and have advocated that idea for many years too.

Photovoltaics remain uneconomic today. They will need a five-fold decrease in cost in order to compete against conventional electrical generation.

Here's a much more promising alternative, IMO:
energylan.sandia.gov
stirlingenergy.com
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In Australia, as everywhere else, the pine trees require a minimum amount of rainfall.

Here's a delightfully clear-headed scientific analysis of Australia's potential as forest land, as of 1926.

tinyurl.com
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