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Breakable wrote: Another factor to think about is the transmission lines. The current centralized infrastructure is about 30% efficient. I don’t think anyone will want to replace it if the energy will be cheap and plenty. Even if Sweden did that a decade ago. Although I would love to see local power generation.

I think you’d see a recycling of the long distance power lines. The copper in the wires will be worth more and more as the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) continue to increase consumption. The perfect place for a FF device would be the endpoint in the cities where all the transformers are, stepping down the voltage.

Also there will be a need for more land. The strip of land the power lines occupy will be more valuable, wasting it on power distribution won’t be reasonable.

I still like http://www.nanosolar.com, but they’re not real until I can go buy some of their cells — and I can’t today.

-Dave