An exciting development, without some sort of cost effective storage, wind and solar is a money pit. It remains to be seen however if it can be economically scaled and made to work in the real world. I would not get too exercised about "Reaping the profits" If Government were to actually get the profits out politicians would just piss the money away on buying votes for themselves. "We" would never actually see the money. I would be perfectly happy to see some big evil corporation take this and make something out of it. "We" would then benefit as a whole by a "rising tide". As an example of this I cite the invention of Kerosene by standard oil. They made billions of dollars, but the public got kerosene at pennies a gallon and this replaced Whale oil [which was very expensive] for lamps. Even if government had invented it they would never have rolled it out commercially to the public because it would displace all of the whale industry. Government cannot stand to gore the ox of a constituency. They would keep the rest of us in the stone age rather than allowing a constituency to loose out..