alpha24seven

Lithium-Ion Batteries and Centerfolds: The Final Chapter

Excellent article. You should check out EEStor. If it works, then world will be a very different place.

@ frflyer. You suggest subsidy as an answer and correlate to oil. You seem like a smart guy. That is not the answer nor is it the comparison. Do NOT subsidize solar. The solar revolution will only proceed under the auspices of scale and not subsidy. It is a lethal canard to constantly drag new energy systems back into the oil subsidization fray. We simply need to move forward and let these new systems invalidate the legacy systems. It seems counter intuitive but it really isn't. We need to use the new energy systems in a very disruptive manner and hobbling their implementation through disastrous subsidy programs actually questions if they will ever be succesful.

Solar is succesful now. Subsidies are no longer needed. Make them compete. It will be world changing when the subsidies go away, the price drops and solar becomes ubiquitous.

I believe that the current energy providers of all stripes fear the collapse per installed watt of solar energy more than any other contingency on the horizon.

Investment Ideas With Potential From the One-House Grid

Excellent article.

The problem you have revealed is from the law of unintended consequences.

When the the rich move to the one-house grid, you orphan the legacy utility system to the poor. This cause their rates to increase because for every one-house grid there is not an equal reduction in operating and capital costs for the existing utility, therefore the the disadvantaged electric bills will spike. There is no way a wealthy homeowner can zero their bill through net metering and this reduction in revenue to the utilities will not effect everybody else left behind.

Detrimental cause and effect...

Caveat Emptor: The Energy Balance of Snake Oil

I'd also like to remind Tom that Berkshire Hathaway run by some guy named Warren Buffet was a reverse merger.