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.

Will We Have Too Much Generation for Renewable Energy Projects?

Great article. I like the forecast of potential oversupply and winners and losers.

I will add my own prediction. Solar energy will progress in price per installed watt so that it will be THE disruptive technology. Once solar escapes the subsidy trap, is easy to install, then we are going to see a massive change. Couple 100% daytime household production with a new super capacitor storage system (contact John Doer over at Kleiner Perkins) and increased efficiencies due to LEDs etc and the shift will be massive and swift.

I'm sure everybody has been paying attention to the massive VC investments in about 1,000 companies (not joking) that are trying like hell right now -- not twenty years from now, to make this happen.

An easy place to start is Nanosolar.