Check out this link which points out the great marketing hype with questionable financial payback by Forbes who considers the HYPE angle… “Company’s chief, K.R. Sridhar, said on 60 Minutes, suggests the company’s cell costs $9,000 to $10,000 per kilowatt of capacity. Compare that with roughly $2,000 for wind and $5,000 for solar, according to [...]
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Bloom Box the future of energy, a hat trick or hype, Ebay saves $100,000 using 5 boxes
Posted: February 24, 2010 by futurepredictions in BlogrollTags: bloom, box, energy, future
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Predictions for the future 2100 to year 4000
Posted: September 25, 2009 by futurepredictions in BlogrollTags: future, futurist, Video, energy, future predictions, TED, future prediction
What the future holds? Life in the Future From 2200 Land Owners Lose Money, and Labor Wants More Pay…. Optimistic talk from TED2009, Pete Alcorn shares a vision of the world of two centuries from now — when declining populations and growing opportunity prove Malthus was wrong. Future World
The future of nuclear power reported by MIT and UC Berkeley
Posted: September 13, 2009 by futurepredictions in Middle East, Security, oilTags: energy, gases, green house, greenhouse, mit, nuclear, power, UC Berkeley
Access here “The Future of Nuclear Power” a MIT study concludes that: “Even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050″. and a video provided by UC Berkeley Energy Symposium: Leadership [...]
Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board speaks about the future of energy
Posted: August 11, 2009 by futurepredictions in BlogrollTags: advisory board, economic, economy, energy, obama, recovery, renewable, volcker
The first official quarterly meeting of the Presidents Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB), chaired by Paul Volcker, is held in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. May 20, 2009. (Public Domain) 1 hour
LASER
Posted: December 17, 2008 by futurepredictions in BlogrollTags: define laser, energy, fusion, hydrogen, lawarnce liver, national, NIF, nuclear, science, wired, Worlds largest laser
Worlds largest laser, 100 times more energy then any other laser ever built. Could we get clean carbon free limitless energy via a thermal nuclear burn…? Ready to test this one by 2010 3 billion invested to get the answers! WIRED VIDEO “Wired Science heads to the National Ignition Facility, where an enormous 192-beam laser [...]
