Of course it matters. Which entity, private or public, that has a
source of electrical energy, will elect to throw it away at, say, 20%
efficiency, when they can sell it on the open market, for whatever is
the going price?
No. As I suspected, you are yet another dreamer who imagines all the
wonderful things we could do if energy were free. It ain't.
No, you have the idea, and are flogging it to a bunch of engineers.
Show us some numbers.
But of course, you can't.
It doesn't exist, which makes it a lot harder to understand.
Solar energy is low density and is only on during the day, in good
weather. There are no commercially viable solar-electric capture
technologies in existance today, other than for niche and novelty
applications, like satellites and emergency call boxes. If solar
electric generation became feasible some day, its first priority would
be daytime peaking generation, which it's ideally suited for. If
vehicles were electrically powered, via batteries or your aluminum
thing, the power would be used night-time, off-peak, and hence not
solar.
We're engineers: our job is to change things. What separates you from
us is that we actually do it, and our stuff works.
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