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Re: Re: OT: Electricity generation



Andy Powell wrote:
> On 16 Jan 2009, at 15:28, Simon Coates wrote:
>
>> Sun's irradiance is 1350 to 1400W/m2 - but that's in space!
>> Most of this is infrared - Solar hot water can collect around
1000W/
>> m2 but that's assuming the Sun is directly overhead.
>>
> So steam engines might make a comeback?
>


All train services are cancelled due to the wrong sort of cloud... :-)

Jim

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