New electrical energy generation will become the problem after these super nanotech lithium-ion batteries get widely distributed (starting this year):
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/ 30/0050228&tid=126&tid=137http://www.a123systems.com/html/news/articles/0511 02_pr.html
The electric energy market will need to expand rapidly, and a number of technologies will eventually compete, such as: Economical wind turbines; super solar photovoltaics; various stationary fuel cells (e.g., direct carbon and ethanol fuel cells, as well as alkaline and solid-oxide types); clean coal, peat, and biomass gasification for turbogenerators; nuclear fission using uranium, thorium, and their re-processed by-products; expanded R&D for safe, economical fusion power.
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New electrical energy generation will become the problem after these super nanotech lithium-ion batteries get widely distributed (starting this year): http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/ 30/0050228&tid=126&tid=137
http://www.a123systems.com/html/news/articles/0511 02_pr.html
The electric energy market will need to expand rapidly, and a number of technologies will eventually compete, such as: Economical wind turbines; super solar photovoltaics; various stationary fuel cells (e.g., direct carbon and ethanol fuel cells, as well as alkaline and solid-oxide types); clean coal, peat, and biomass gasification for turbogenerators; nuclear fission using uranium, thorium, and their re-processed by-products; expanded R&D for safe, economical fusion power.