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   From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob F"  wrote in message news:sivg2e$va0$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   The significant issue is that the solar house with batteries is getting   
   its energy from the sun, not from fossil fuel, reducing it's damage to   
   the climate from CO2 releases. If it charged the batteries from a coal   
   power plant, that would not be the case.   
      
   A solar heated house stores thermal energy in thermal mass for use   
   overnight. A solar powered house can similarly store energy in electric   
   batteries, or flywheels. They are both solar.   
      
   But of course, common sense seems to mean nothing to you. You just have   
   to be "right".   
      
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   If the meaning of words matters more than effective actions then "totally   
   solar" should exclude the conversion from optical to electrical as well as   
   from electrical to chemical. The system output should be a beam of sunshine.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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