07-01-2015, 01:45 PM
You can currently buy a rechargeable battery that fits in your pocket capable of jump starting your car as well as powering/charging all your portable devices.
Battery tech is evolving at nearly exponential rates. If you have solar, soon the grid will be obsolete.
Imagine what the grid tie fees will be when people are leaving the grid in droves and there is a decreasing grid population base to pay for it's maintenance. The people who can afford to leave will go, leaving only the poor who will never be able to pay to maintain 19th century technology. Helco's greed has already unleashed its own destruction.
Battery tech is evolving at nearly exponential rates. If you have solar, soon the grid will be obsolete.
Imagine what the grid tie fees will be when people are leaving the grid in droves and there is a decreasing grid population base to pay for it's maintenance. The people who can afford to leave will go, leaving only the poor who will never be able to pay to maintain 19th century technology. Helco's greed has already unleashed its own destruction.