It's always the same: whenever something relatively new and innovative enters the market, the copy cats and the pirates, the cheats and the thieves come along and offer something that looks like it's the real McCoy, but falls well short. Whether its fake fashion, fake watches, fake continuous grid-making machines, fake energy storage or fake journalism and fake conferences. It is an insult to the rest of us who try to do it 'right'. I was never happy about slapping a few kilowatt hours worth of solar cells on a domestic roof because I never understood how the limited power generated contributed to 'dispatchable power' on electric distribution systems, which have always been (more or less) uni-directional.
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