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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by maxerickson on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @08:04PM (#11625232)
Residential is only about 1/3 of consumption. I guess at least industrial won't be using Powerwalls to store backup power.

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/5?agg=0...

It might not be possible to make all those batteries using lithium, but that doesn't really matter for stationary batteries.

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Re:The price of solar power just fell 50% in 16 months by ssmoot on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:02AM (#11628400)
That's a huge factor I hadn't considered. Thanks.
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