IN BRIEF

Updated May 1 2016 - 10:24am, first published 10:19am

SOLAR POWER

DAVID Parker must be  joking to suggest solar powered desalination plants to provide water to fill the hydro dams (The Examiner, April 23). Pumping water from the sea to dams would use more power than Hydro would produce, without considering the massive cost of desalination and inefficient nature of solar power.

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