This is just such an intriguing article, I have to bring it to your attention and suggest you read it. Here's a taster: "oil will never be cheap again and that wasteful, polluting technologies cannot be tolerated. The last big innovation in energy production ... was nuclear power half a century ago; since then the field has stagnated. 'Do you know any industry in this country whose last major breakthrough was in 1955?' Friedman asks. According to the book, US pet food companies spent more on R&D last year than US utilities did. 'The Stone Age didn't end because we ran out of stone,' he says. Likewise, the climate-destroying fossil-fuel age will end only if we invent our way out of it."
In Hot, Flat, and Crowded, Thomas Friedman Calls for a Green Energy Revolution
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