Richard Smalley, the winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, has
been stumping the country making presentations about the next 40 years
of energy in the US and the world. They ran an article about him in the
NYTimes the other day, but you can download presentations from his web
site:
http://smalley.rice.edu/The gap in required supply is truly awesome. His argument that the
technology to fill that gap is likely to be developed in and owned by
Asian countries is intriguing. Definitely a major growth field if we
aren't to spend the next half century wasting energy fighting over
dwindling oil reserves.
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