The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months

Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by lisivka on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @05:49PM (#11624511)

If you have space and money, you can create huge "gravity lamp" to store energy: lift up something massive using solar energy and electric motor, then it will slowly generate electricity at night using same motor as generator.

Or you can use "molecular spring", which is very compact, for same purpose.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by yourapostasy on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:23PM (#11630464)

How close are we to actually manufacturing molecular springs? My understanding is our materials science and engineering is not up for making macroscopic molecular springs yet, and what I can Google up seems to indicate we nowhere near macroscopic scale springs.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by lisivka on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @07:32PM (#11632823)

Make container of highly porous material then fill it with a fluid which will avoid that material surface at molecular level. AFAIK, it is invented years ago.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by yourapostasy on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:39AM (#11636459)

Can you post a link to that please? When I search around starting with the Wikipedia [1] entry, I don't find a description of what you are describing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_spring

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by lisivka on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:51PM (#11639182)

http://www.google.com/patents/US7767301 http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/eoguijt/article/view/1034000...

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