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[Ben Elliston]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 08:50:02AM +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:

> With most technologies, the money first often comes for the military
> applications, then business, then consumer. I realise the scale of
> this shift is different (infrastructure rather than gadgets or
> engineering components), but are there any examples where the energy
> needs are showing this level of baseload provision on a town-sized
> scale at least, where fossil fuel is hard to come by reliably?

I don't know where it's at, but the US Army announced in 2009 that
they were planning to build a 500 megawatt solar thermal plant in the
California desert:

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/07/army-starts-solar-plant-next-step-care-about-cilmate-change/

Ben
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