in May of this year I wrote a (what I considered) interesting little blogpost about organic computers that run on light and of course there's no such thing.
All modern solar technological advances (solar panels, parabolic steam mirrors, light-gate computers etc) are driven by the search for CHEAP ELECTRICITY, even though the world of plants has PROVEN that you don't need an electrical system to make full use of solar power.
I (was gonna say that I) can't understand why the Scientific Community isn't investing in making useful solar technological devices that use and are driven solely by the power of the sun's radiation.
Why aren't technological 'organic' systems being made that could alter their internal structure based on the processing of light at the data-as-energy input? Why aren't organic batteries being COILED during the day for RELEASE at night? Why aren't light-screens following the sun so that they'll always produce a perfect image, colour fed organically by the sun? Then I remembered, PROFIT.
There's no profit in FREE ENERGY, that's why You The Consumer get screwed by every new three-year-consumable. Consumerist Planet is DOOMED, I tell ya. DOOMED.