power revolution
"I've gotten rid of all the goddamn grids."
That's Daniel Nocera, chemistry professor at MIT. For some reason, that one quote makes me want to give him a big hug.
Every once in a long while - sometimes not for years at a time - I read about something and the skiffy-writer part of my brain goes "YES! YES! THAT IS THE FUTURE."
A little over a decade ago I read about "electronic ink" and had that tingly feeling, and I've been waiting for that technology to come of age ever since. Finally, this year, we get the Kindle.
I'm having that skiffy tingle now. So maybe this is premature, but ... in a decade or so, this could be our ticket out of fossil fuel hell.
Best explanations I've found are at Wired and Forbes. (Forbes? huh.)
That's Daniel Nocera, chemistry professor at MIT. For some reason, that one quote makes me want to give him a big hug.
Every once in a long while - sometimes not for years at a time - I read about something and the skiffy-writer part of my brain goes "YES! YES! THAT IS THE FUTURE."
A little over a decade ago I read about "electronic ink" and had that tingly feeling, and I've been waiting for that technology to come of age ever since. Finally, this year, we get the Kindle.
I'm having that skiffy tingle now. So maybe this is premature, but ... in a decade or so, this could be our ticket out of fossil fuel hell.
Best explanations I've found are at Wired and Forbes. (Forbes? huh.)