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Renewable energy breakthroughs cheaper than coal, solar, wind, geothermal need to be able to be located anywhere without:

1) Impact studies and planning permissions,

2) Expensive exposure to the elements,

3) Expensive maintenance of moving parts, operational down time, and operational supervision

4) Unprofitable transmission and distribution losses.

Key points:

1) Desert and remote technologies (Solar and Wind)  suffer from inherent unreliability of supply through reliance on weather patterns, and

2) Solar and Wind and Geothermal suffer from energy transmission and distribution losses (30%)  over long distance transmission lines, and

3) Solar and Wind and Geothermal require constant replacement of parts and infrastructure due to constant exposure to extreme weather conditions and the elements.

4)  Solar and Wind and Geothermal are not appropriate economic breakthroughs in terms of serving large areas of population, cities, where the bulk of demand is located, and

5) Solar and Wind and Geothermal are not suitable for distributed electrical power situated locally, in cities and at industrial sites,  the over riding trend for the future transformation of the global electricity industry, solar and wind and geothermal cannot provide the flexibility to fill this need.

Renewable energy cheaper than coal, solar, wind, geothermal

An optimum renewable energy technology can produce an effective 30% higher output as it will not require transmission and distribution over long distances.  Solar, Wind and Geothermal are severely limited in location by high temperature, high wind or to remote geothermal sites.

Renewable energy cheaper than coal, solar, wind, geothermal

In terms of the broad replacement of traditional centralized coal fired power plants none of these options are rational or realistic.