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I may be way off on this, but I was under the impression that current
solar conversion is up around 30% of theoretical, (for the best availible
solar cells) so I can't see nanotec making a big difference here. Also,
I'm curious to see if people out there can think of effective energy
storage methods involving nanotechnology?
  Ones I can think of right now are
    ..better built batteries  (boring)
    ..Molecular flywheel arangements?
    ..Molecular sized springs storing energy?
    ..mechanical charge transport mechanism?
or possibly direct light powering of any of the above, getting rid
of the Light->electricity->Storage->electricity cycle, giving us
direct Light->Storage->Kinetic Energy??
Any comments??
Mike

[Primarily in the cost arena, since the highest efficiency cells now
 are not economical.  However, with nanotech, high-efficiency conversion
 may be remarkably simple: there's a good chance that you could just
 build arrays of tuned dipole rectennas at optical frequencies!
 Best storage methods will probably involve creating and storing
 HEDM ("high energy-density matter") forms, using nanotech to store
 them stably.  Single-H, anyone?
 --JoSH]