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theoretically you could also store a crapton of information on them as well, so long as it's quartz glass. Imagine having windows that not only power a building, but can easily store petabytes of information. Would probably be awhile before the cost becomes low enough for the avg person, but for a corporation designing a new HQ building? That would be amazing. You could even just but the information on like... meeting rooms inside then the solar powered ones on the frame of the building to make the information much harder to destroy or hack.. in fact, I don't even know where'd you start trying to hack into that outside stealing the glass itself, as a solar powered building doesn't need a grid if it all has it's own grid throughout the building. Since you probably wouldn't never hit the cap on the potential information you could store, you could also put random normal glass windows everywhere so not many people know which are storying information.

The information would still need a computer interface otherwise you'd never be able to tell the glass what info to store. The glass would be acting like an external hard drive. So all you would need to do is hack the computers and then you have access to the hard drive windows.

In the news today, the entire internet was destroyed by 4 grade school children from a small ton in Colorado whom used BB guns to shoot out all the windows in an abandoned mall.

you can store information in quartz., like how dna can store information.