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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 81717" data-attributes="member: 126">Re: Batteries May Become ObsoleteYou can predict wind/solar energy generation in the average or long term, just not the short term so you end up having to build over capacity just to insure adequate stable supply. There is no question that there are huge amounts of energy not captured from renewable sources, but even lower hanging fruit is the energy we routinely waste with leaky/under-insulated homes, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; To bring this back on topic, yes a super-cap/super-battery would be very useful along with loss-less transmission (super-conductors). The government should be spending our tax dollars on research to perfect these actually useful things, and not subsidizing market choices to support technology that isn&#039;t ready for prime time yet. JRPS Note wind-mills are even older than electric cars.PPS: The solar panel industry is in need of a Harvard Business school study into how the manufacturing industry can reach maturity with over-capacity in China, while the technology is still not perfected and primarily markets are all heavily subsidized. Withdraw the subsidies, and the house of cards implodes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 81717, member: 126"] Re: Batteries May Become Obsolete You can predict wind/solar energy generation in the average or long term, just not the short term so you end up having to build over capacity just to insure adequate stable supply. There is no question that there are huge amounts of energy not captured from renewable sources, but even lower hanging fruit is the energy we routinely waste with leaky/under-insulated homes, etc. To bring this back on topic, yes a super-cap/super-battery would be very useful along with loss-less transmission (super-conductors). The government should be spending our tax dollars on research to perfect these actually useful things, and not subsidizing market choices to support technology that isn't ready for prime time yet. JR PS Note wind-mills are even older than electric cars. PPS: The solar panel industry is in need of a Harvard Business school study into how the manufacturing industry can reach maturity with over-capacity in China, while the technology is still not perfected and primarily markets are all heavily subsidized. Withdraw the subsidies, and the house of cards implodes. [/QUOTE]

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