In Friday by Heinlein they have these batteries called Shipstones :-)

Pity, imagine it it could work, then Skype'ing to our grandkids on Mars would be possible without that 20 minutes turnaround time.

Don't know the capacity of present day photon traps, but if they could squeeze in say a couple of petabytes of those quantum entangled photons simultaneously into two photon traps at location A, then FedEx one photon trap to location B, then as I understand it, you would enjoy 1 GBit/s instantaneous IPv4/IPv6 between location A and B (regardless of distance) for say one year. I.E. digging that new Atlantic cable might not be the only option for achieving even higher speed stock trading...

I think today most people agree that CFCs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon) did actually hurt the ozone layer. Abolish use of CFCs and the ozone layer seems to be restoring. Was that just luck or because mankind agreed? Perhaps one day people will view excess usage of CO2 in a similar way.