Floating solar panels that track the Sun
Kind of curious but I think people can get side-tracked by the idea of &quot;scale&quot;. The thought that if something doesn&#x27;t scale in the traditional way to a few very large installations, it won&#x27;t work.<p>Consider things like battery storage for the grid etc. and you might think it is a dead horse. However, what if every house had solar panels and a relatively small number of cells with a grid-tie unit. I no longer need to store an enormous amount of energy, just enough for perhaps a few hours of demand for my house. You get to soak up most of the high-sun days into batteries, you can also feed each other a little if someone is using a fair bit more energy along existing small cables.<p>You can then feed in a much smaller number of larger power plants who can make up any remaining peaks and troughs. Don&#x27;t need to store 1TW of power into a grid-scale plant, just 20M 10KW systems distributed round the entire country.<p>Don&#x27;t need to point the panels at the sun all day then!