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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (99584)	1/10/2008 2:40:07 PM
From: ChanceIs	Respond to of 306849

>>>if you have to buy a new coal plant, which is what these emerging markets have to do<<< No, no. We are dismantling our old coal plants because the cost to operate them is so high with the CO2 mitigation. We send them to 3rd world countries who reassemble them and operate w/o the CO2 mitigation costs. Hence the trade deficit.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (99584)	1/10/2008 2:58:56 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Yes...but if you had to scale solar to replace the capacity of coal, the costs of materials would skyrocket. Thus your're not realistically comparing the two. Undoubtedly solar thermoelectric will be much more widely used, (in fact there is a large project in Nevada near Vegas already operating and a "large" one in AZ on the drawing board (by large I mean 100 mW, still small by power plant standards, but large for solar), but there are still some technical issues remaining. democraticunderground.com