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The End Of The Innovation Road for CMOS
Elledan writes "According to this EE Times article, CMOS technology (also used to create CPUs with) is getting near the moment when we will no longer be able to create smaller structures with it. With the date for this moment set around 2012 and with no replacement technology in sight, this issue might become a real problem in the near future, as the article explains."
Unless we find alternative energy sources, mankind is in really deep shit quite soon, not when fossil fuels run out,
We will be fine as far as the big picture goes, as long as the government doens't fuck it up.
As fossil fuels become more expensive, the profits in alternative energy research will boom like never before. This will lead to innovations in alternative energy, and thus cheaper alternative energy.
Right now, there just isn't much economic motivation for alternative fuel research, when cheap and relatively plentiful petroleum products are your competition.
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
That's what you think.
Most people think the world's oil reserves are mostly around the Persian Gulf. However, with the fall of the Soviet Union and improving technology to extract and transport oil, we are discovering massively huge reserves in what was once Soviet Central Asia, Siberia and much of China. Also, there is much oil in the continental shelf off the coasts of the USA that have yet to be exploited; British Petroleum engineers have said there may be enough oil beneath the Gulf of Mexico to equal the entire Middle East combined. Also, the tar sands of Alberta province in Canada hold the equivalent of all the oil in Saudi Arabia and then some.
Already, oil from the former Soviet Union has begun to moderate the influence of OPEC; once the oil fields there are fully opened up it could make OPEC obselete.