Power future

Tesla Motors has officially offered its gigafactory-produced batteries to the market. Because of that new "gigafactory," some think the field of energy (power production) is on the way to big change. According to this writer, it's going to start the "First Energy Revolution."

A vast volume of solar energy rains down on the earth, so wouldn't it be great if every residence and business could have a solar panel that provided enough energy cheaply. So far that is not the case, partly because sunshine varies. To provide power all the time, in spite of clouds and darkness, you'd have to have a good way to store it. Up til now, no batteries were up to the task.

On April 30, Elon Musk announced that Tesla Energy is ready to fix that gap with their "powerwall," which apparently is up to the task. Result? "[P]ower generation will become clean, reliable, ubiquitous, and very low cost . . .  a revolutionary transformation of our society and the world at large."

“Tesla Energy took orders for about US$800 million in stationary batteries in the first week following the announcement…”