Abstract
Our Power Makers need to provide us with a very reliable electricity supply, 99.998% of the time. Generators that produce highly variable energy output create headaches. What the Power Makers prefer are generators that can produce a predictable amount of energy as and when it is needed—not at the whim of nature’s curse. In this chapter we look at the most promising RE technologies that are both reliable and proven. These come down to hydropower, conventional geothermal, biomass, and concentrated solar thermal with some thermal storage (CSP).
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Areas closer to the equator are generally excluded because of high rainfall and associated cloud cover.
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Nicholson, M. (2012). Nature’s Saviors. In: The Power Makers' Challenge. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2813-7_9
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