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...families, knowing prospects are improving. That is because El Phil is focused on adopting the higher standards that foreign markets expect. He now promotes not only the ability to harvest before European competitors, but also "traceability." His peaches, plums and nectarines are all labeled with the location of his grove, and cool-packed to reach the French coast no more than three to four days after they're picked. In addition to the crop from El Phil's 124 acres (50 ha) in Grombalia, the company plays middleman for watermelons, nuts and dates purchased from the hotter and dryer south...
...being watched worldwide," says Grove-White, a British power-industry veteran whose experience covers four continents and every system, from wind and hydro to nuclear and coal. "The climate debate has focused an awful lot of interest on the commercial development of these resources...
...surprise, says Grove-White, was that there was no need to add water: it was already there, trapped underground at high pressure for the past 3 million years. Getting the hot water to the surface hasn't been easy, and one well had to be abandoned. But Geodynamics now says the flow from 4 km deep is sufficiently strong and hot to run a 1-MW power station by the end of the year - enough to power the drilling-camp site and Innamincka...
...There are some obvious challenges. Power from coal-fired plants is cheaper. And the closest connection point to the national electricity grid is 500 km away. But Grove-White says geothermal power will become economic once coal and gas plants have to pay for their carbon emissions, which he expects to happen in an Australian carbon-trading scheme due to start in 2010. While the transmission lines will be expensive, their cost - $500 million or more - is included in the business model...
...other local tourist attractions attest. Nearby are the graves of explorers Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills, who died of sickness and starvation in 1861 on their way back to Melbourne after crossing the continent from south to north. Geodynamics insists its prospects remain very much alive. Grove-White is so confident he's even come up with an advertising slogan for the pub: Have a cold beer from the hottest rocks. "It's got a nice ring to it," he says...