[Paladin2]

Solar Cells are a modern technology (as opposed to trains and windmills) and have a place in energy generation, especially should batteries ever improve significantly (order of magnitude).

[familyop]

"Solar Cells are a modern technology (as opposed to trains and windmills) and have a place in energy generation, especially should batteries ever improve significantly (order of magnitude)."

Without electric clothes dryers, cooking ranges and the like, some golf cart batteries are relatively cheap and can, with good care, last up to ten years. A great private power plant can cost as little as $60 per month with the water well powered by diesel (with cistern) or a small PV solar plant (with cistern instead of battery, of course). Granted, that $60 per month is without a "professional" install by "experts."

[qam1]

Solar Cells are a modern technology (as opposed to trains and windmills) and have a place in energy generation, especially should batteries ever improve significantly (order of magnitude).

Bzzzzzt. Wrong

The 1st solar cell was invented in 1883 by Charles Fritts.

Hardly modern technology.

If after 130 years and 100s of billions in subsidies solar cells still produce way less than 1% of the energy in America, we can say that they have only a little place in energy generation