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Time Magazine - A Tour of the Energy Future
By MB-BigB | January 26, 2007
Time Magazine has a really neat article online that lists some of the more cutting edge projects going on in the field of alternative energy. It seems that MIT has taken a bunch of its smartest scientists and created an Energy Research Council to “declare war on the energy crisis.” Here’s a snippet about one of those scientists - “Most amazing of all was Professor Angela Belcher, a young genius who is teaching bugs how to become batteries — in other words, she’s genetically modifying viruses so that they learn to store energy.” In other words, creating biologically directed organisms that could store electrical energy and make better batteries, solar cells, and fuel cells.
Here’s the full article - it’s well worth the click.
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Topics: Solar Power, biofuel, global warming, oil conservation |