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To: longnshort who wrote (8656)	5/29/2009 3:45:55 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) of 86350

Hawk and thread, one of the complaints you guys have about renewable energy is the need for baseline capacity...use at other times than during the day. Plenty of great ideas are making their way to the market place and this is yet another example of how investment, drive, and great ideas can wean us off of our fossil fuel dependencies at market rates competitive with coal-fired electricity plants. A solar plant that's worth its salt latimes.com The molten salt, once cooled, would then be pumped back through the solar collector to start the process all over again. "The plant has no emissions, and if you have a leak or something, you can just shovel it up and take it home with you to use for your barbecue," Murphy said. The molten salt can be stored for days if not weeks and then used to generate electricity at any time. Many other solar technologies work only when the sun is shining. Storing electricity in a battery works for cars and homes but not on a massive scale that would be needed to power thousands of homes. "You can put that into a storage tank that would look much like a tank at an oil refinery," Murphy said. "We can store that energy almost indefinitely."

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