Ruddy darling, Perhaps, just sayin perhaps, you should have followed the first link, you know, <a href="http://rabett.blogspot.com/2012/04/facebook.html" rel="nofollow">the one here </a> before haring off on a wild bunny chase. If you had you would have read about how network interconnects can take the place of local power storage not store power
<blockquote>The point of these interconnects is to balance load between a variety of green and greenish generation methods. The French link, of course, can network in the nuclear plants in France, the Norway links take advantage of pumped water storage and other hydro capabilities. Spain, in addition to rain has a lot of wind on the plain which it already covers a significant fraction of its electrical needs from. Ireland has potential excess wind generating capacity and there are plans for new tidal electric generation in France. Although not shown here, Sahara solar could easily be linked to Europe by the same technology. A hidden implication is that as long as a number of countries continue to develop nuclear political decisions to forego may not have much of an effect on the continental scale, with the developers selling power to the others. If this is the case we may see many such links between Japan and Asia</blockquote>
Now Eli is sorry that you were confused. On the other hand, given your act, Eli cannot claim to be surprised. Amused, well yeah, always amused.
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