Independent MP Tony Windsor urges Australia to fund research into solar energy
AUDIO . http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3293145.htm Windsor backs renewable energy future, ABC Radio AM Ashley Hall reported this story on 16 Aug 11 “….TONY WINDSOR: What’s happening in these other countries is that there is basically a consensus that something has to be done. Let’s formulate the best way of getting there. Let’s take some risks in terms of research. Let’s engage with the corporates and the scientists and get people working towards a new future and I think it is terribly exciting…..
(solar tower – Seville, Spain)
heat heating salts in a sense, liquid salts to those temperatures and it was not only the generation of electricity coming from the sun, the cheap energy source, the cheapest, but it was also the technology that has been developed there to actually store that heat so that it could be used to produce electricity after the sun had gone down…….in fact there is a variation of the theme. It hasn’t got the storage capacity that the Spanish example has but it is a variation of the technology that is going to be built in Moree and that will create jobs. ..
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