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Air-slurping solar battery will slice energy costs – boffins

Re: Great idea, but it doesn't matter if it fails

It will happen first in areas where the sun shines regularly (such as the Southwest in the USA). There will be resistance by electric utilities that want to maintain their monopoly of power and would prefer to claim a power shortage and raise rates (because of the difficulties to build more fossil fuel and nuclear plants). Demand for power will continually increase and power distribution infrastructure will continue to get more inadequate. Individual off grid power where practical has a high likelihood to happen and it will be a growing and profitable (unstoppable) industry with a life of its own.

Great idea, but it doesn't matter if it fails

Conventional Solar cells will eventually replace roof tiles and shingles in all homes and businesses. The % loss from energy transport from solar cell to battery can be compensated by adding that % more cells (for now until efficiency improves.) The real game changer happens when Tesla's gigafactory is built in 2017 and it provides lower cost storage batteries to to homes through its subsidiary Solar City. A significant amount of the population will soon and finally be off the grid as it should be with huge reductions in carbon footprint.