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Chris Gupta
At 06:42 AM 7/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I don't know if MIT's Technology Review magazine has a website where the
>article can be read. It just arrived at my news stand. It's got a black
>cover with a petri dish on the front.
>
>No connection really, I just piggy backed on your email since that's the
>only way I can send messages and forgot to erase the preceeding title.
>But yes, now that you mention it, battery storage is still the
>"expensive" link in the residential photovoltaic equation. Still having
>to be hooked up to the grid keeps the Utilities in business. A light and
>cheap alternative to existing batteries commercialized today for that
>purpose would bring PV's to suburbia, and as well as revolutionize the
>EV market. That's the promise made by plastic batteries and the article
>explains why, even though the technology looks sound, it hasn't been
>commercialized yet. It's the same old story of already existing product
>on the shelf and previously invested capital in other types of
>technology which holds them back. My point is that if something as
>benign as plastic batteries can't make it on the market because of the
>status quo and product "displacement", can you imagine the problems new
>energy will face?
>
>Jerry wrote:
>>uuuhhhhh, I missed the connection, what does commercialization of
>>plastic batteries have to do with the thread of a renewed interest in
>>solar energy? As in collection/reception of energy versus storage of
>>energy??
>>
>>and if a connection follows, what is the URL or quote so that the
>>article can be read?
>
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