Also if someone was able to cheaply compress energy to the same degree as fossil fuels are then if he wanted to generate the energy to be compressed he was going to need alot of solar panels or wind mills so the economics still dont seem to work out and if something is not economical its wasteful and thus bad for the environment imo.

faithandcredit

appreciate the thoughtful response, and agree on not waiting for tech to improve.

I'm for better battery tech, certainly. But if you study it, it needs many orders of magnitude better storage for it to be anywhere near the energy density of fossil fuels. The real tragedy is that the promise of "green" energy has oppressed the people in the developing world. I'm not fine with waiting until tech to get better to let those countries develop.

jimmysong

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Batteries continue to get cheaper and more widely adopted as tools for storing energy.

Would low-cost, widely available batteries connected to solar panels change your views on the value of solar energy?