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To: The Vet who wrote (93890)	4/29/2008 5:01:53 PM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

I commented on "The main drawbacks are transmission and storage." My comment was, that if energy gets expensive enough, solar energy becomes competitive. If transmission and storage is a problem, you can store energy as liquid fuels. It will cost you something in effectiveness, but almost any kind of energy can be stored as liquid fuels. Hydrogen is another example of a liquid fuel, but which requires high pressure or low temperature. This may require you to generate and use electric power as part of the process. But it doesn't mean that you need to transport the electric power in a power grid. On Iceland, they use thermal energy to produce aluminum. Instead of transporting the energy to an aluminum plant elsewhere, the need for energy transport is now handled by moving aluminum on ships. I hope this explanation makes things clearer.