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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5395)	2/26/2009 9:37:05 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 86356

The correct answer is "suitable land". Only a fraction of the land is available for solar power since the majority of it is locked up in wildlife areas and other uses. The Southwest is almost 1 million square miles in total area. I guess you consider Scientific American to be total fantasy. The entire report uses existing technology. The compressed air storage has been used for almost 20 years in Europe. Salt energy storage has been around for many years and scales easily. It looses about 2% per day in steady state and can store energy for a number of days. Anyway the sun comes up every day and provides me with thermal and electrical energy. Unfortunately we will be waiting many, many years for pebble bed reactors in this country, if it ever happens. (Which I doubt very much) Thank goodness that DOE killed Yucca Mountain.