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A near 100pct renewable grid for Australia is feasible and affordable, with just a few hours of storage (reneweconomy.com.au)
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[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hi mate, I think you misunderstood me.

It captures 30% of energy as PV and 60% as heat energy. The whole system itself is about 80% efficiency in terms of the energy captured from the sun, not the PV itself.

This makes it more effective than if you somehow had a molten salt and a normal PV plant in superposition on the same site.

[–] palitu@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i haven't been able to find the actual insolation to electricity efficiency anywhere. Do you have a link that shows the incoming energy to output electricity?