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To: Yogizuna who wrote (1595)	3/14/2005 3:14:39 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16955

We could transform vast areas of northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. or in the case of Europe northern Africa into huge solar arrays and farms for shipment of electricity northward. Australia is now building a large 200 MW solar tower. That development along with the solar advancements I just spelled out in my last post will herald in a new age for solar. Another parallel development that will make huge solar farms more viable is developments in huge batteries and similiar storage systems like flywheels and capcitors that will allow the storage of utility scale amounts of electricity for use on-demand. These huge batteries are starting to be used in places that require constant power to even out disruptions from the grid. Again, by 2010 this technology will have developed to the point where there will be no more excuses for why we can't have solar farms and produce most of our electricity from solar.