You're missing the point. PV modules are expensive, plants are free.

Yup.
(1600 years old and thirty push-ups, but yup).

Addiction

Maybe because agriculture and fermentation have been used for thousands of years, whereas lithium and lead-based rechargeable batteries have lifespans less than a decade?

Al Jazeera, the Arabic news channel, is broadcast across most of Europe. Can France take action against it if it broadcasts any anti-Israeli material?

Those 20 or so cars pictured in TFA use up those 256,000KWh of saved energy per year. Hmmm...

I wonder if she will be cloned in the distant future? Ideal source material to use for consistent, replicable experimental results over a long period of time. Fix the 'infinite lives' mod that's gotten into the genome and it's perfect. She really will live forever I think.

Oh, the hypocrisy.

Call me old fashioned, but I like the idea of an e-reader that uses standard replaceable batteries rather than a custom, non-replaceable li-ion cell. That way it isn't useless/tethered for a period when the battery dies, I don't have to drag a charger around, and the reader itself doesn't end up as landfill in a decade when the battery stops holding a charge.

We still have a very limited ability to burn hydrocarbons.

Very much agree with this. Recently watched a program called The Boy Who Can't Forget that looks at this. They interviewed Jill Price who suffers from hyperthymesia; she talks about the trauma she suffers because of it (the pain of never being able to forget your mistakes particularly).

Where do you get 13 billion from? From Human Genome Wikipedia page:

3.3 billion base-pairs recorded at 2 bits per pair would equal 786 megabytes of raw data. This is comparable to a fully data loaded CD.

You seem to be a factor of 2 out.

Reminds me of this graph.

If they're going to this much effort to store/release coastal water, wouldn't it be easier to just rely on the daily tides instead? No wind turbines required.

The world will end on December 21, 2012 anyway.