Rikkitic:
MikeB4:
if battery tech is improved the use of individual generation can be wider
Of course it can. He is just being petty. Better batteries, or battery equivalents, might make it feasible to heat homes from energy stored in the daytime.
While I am hopeful for a battery that can drive a smartphone for a week or a car that can run for 600km on a charge without the battery dying after three years, but there's been dozens of "5x battery density" announcements over the last five years which have resulted in zero commercial products and almost all battery life gains have been the results of BMS or silicon efficiency gains.