||| FROM NEW YORK TIMES |||


It’s not so easy to harvest the sunshine if you live in America.

But that might be changing soon in more than half the country. A technology — known as plug-in, balcony or garden solar — is already enormously popular in Germany, in part because you can buy a kit for less than $600 at IKEA.

Plug-in solar demonstrates one version of the coming changes: With its small size, it makes balcony and backyard power production possible.

As batteries continue to develop, larger and larger amounts of energy will be stored at ever-smaller sizes and scales, and that will enable innovations and technologies we cannot yet imagine

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