A solar panel doesn't have to power a house to be useful. 99% of the solar panels I see are on calculators. Replacing batteries on portable devices--what a great use! Presumably, a better solar device, (however you measure better, be it cheap/efficient/durable) will allow a battery-less device to have more smarts.
Cheap solar devices could be educational and communications tools for poor, illiterate areas of the world.
Are we all such good consumer robots that all we can think about is how many gadgets we can power with the roofs of our big suburban houses? This is why someone makes a hot tun with a plasma screen built-in!
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Err.. hot tub. Feel free to tease me for such a dumb error.
E.g. "Haha Mr. Spread-Literacy can't proof-read his own work!"
A solar panel doesn't have to power a house to be useful. 99% of the solar panels I see are on calculators. Replacing batteries on portable devices--what a great use! Presumably, a better solar device, (however you measure better, be it cheap/efficient/durable) will allow a battery-less device to have more smarts.
Cheap solar devices could be educational and communications tools for poor, illiterate areas of the world.
Are we all such good consumer robots that all we can think about is how many gadgets we can power with the roofs of our big suburban houses? This is why someone makes a hot tun with a plasma screen built-in!