While covering cleantech on VentureBeat, we write often about individual technologies, but rarely about the driving forces behind the market. Global warming is an oft-cited reason for developing renewable energy, but there’s also peak oil — the idea that some day we will hit the maximum possible production of oil, and... (Read more)
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Excellent analysis. The "silver bullet" option is nuclear fusion, but nobody seems to be making much progress except the Focus Fusion guys at Lawrenceville Plasma Physics. Maybe the rest of the world will start taking fusion research seriously soon.
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