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To: TobagoJack who wrote (135210)	8/24/2017 12:44:27 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 217699

<<the two are passing through hk on way to attend a solar trade show / convention in shanghai, as electricity in the ukraines (50% generated by nuclear) is at US$ 0.16 per kilowatt-hr or some such high rate. they wish to put up a 100MW solar farm and engage w/ china infrastructure know-how.>> With Made in China cheap photovoltaics the field is booming. A friend here in London is working for a photovoltaics investment company which has recently signed a deal with Iran [among many other installed systems on several hundred megawatts]. Another friend [French civil engineer] has gone to Japan with Japanese wife to install large photovoltaic systems around Asia for various clients. For decades I have thought Australia needs to be covered in photovoltaics - lots of sun, lots of land, lots of electricity demand. 3 decades ago, BP Solar was pretty big in photovoltaics but they shut the business several years ago when Made in China undercut everyone. Storing the electricity output is a big issue. The way to do that is to introduce 7SSS cars and stations so that on-board storage is small and most storage is at battery swap centres that can take advantage of cheap supplies when available. I see that China is adopting battery swaps for cars but they are talking in terms of 10 minutes to swap a battery which is totally useless. 7 seconds as in Formula 1 pit stops is the way to go. Pull one out one side while shoving another in from the other side is how to do it, with the battery being pulled into place by on-board locking and connection systems. Competition among car companies and battery recharge/swap stations will soon see the time taken to do such a simple thing as swapping a 100 kg battery going down to seconds instead of minutes. The idea of spending half an hour at a Tesla Supercharger will soon be seen as absurd. And when the crowds build up so people have to wait for 3 hours for a part charge it will very quickly go out of fashion. And electricity prices will be high at peak times. And more so when a few days of cloud mean there's limited supply. Mqurice