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I'm not the OP, but here's a few thoughts... Highly distributed rotating masses would handle a large part of the storage, turning it into more of a power smoot
by MR4D 10y ago
I'm not the OP, but here's a few thoughts...
Highly distributed rotating masses would handle a large part of the storage, turning it into more of a power smoothing problem.
Secondly, I presume that at some point we'll be covering every building (rooftop and window) with some sort of solar film that converts electricity.
Why don't we have those today in large scale production? Probably for the same reason that the US builds more roads instead of mass transit - it's a bias to build what we've alway built, not a real technological limitation.
- ianai 10y agoThere's definitely a link between where it's economical to place a panel and panel efficiency. As the technology matures it will make sense to place it more places. I think at some point, ultimately, it will be in the paint of cars/buildings.
- MR4D 10y agoExactly. Just like Moore's law drove the price of computing power to put it practically everywhere, there is a cost curve for solar that will do the same.