[RayChuang88]

Actually, the price of solar panels will really drop very soon thanks to solar panels made with nanotechnology particles instead of expensive-to-make silicon sheets. They're talking maybe maybe 70-80% drop in production costs.

Combine that with the coming of nanotube-based supercapacitor electric storage units and the day of distributed power generation (where every home generates its own electricity and shares the excess with other users) becomes reality within ten years.

[curiosity]

Actually, the price of solar panels will really drop very soon thanks to solar panels made with nanotechnology particles instead of expensive-to-make silicon sheets. They're talking maybe maybe 70-80% drop in production costs.

If you're right, then the R&D necessary to make that nanotechnology a reality is what Google should be investing in. Spending money on the buying the inefficient, cost-ineffecitive panels currently available is a huge waste.

[beezdotcom]

Combine that with the coming of nanotube-based supercapacitor electric storage units and the day of distributed power generation (where every home generates its own electricity and shares the excess with other users) becomes reality within ten years.

As long as we're doing this, it would be nice to eliminate the wastful conversion of AC back to DC that most electronics must do, and create standard DC plugs for most electronic devices so that homes that already generate/store power can leave it in DC form...