The power and the glory
The next technology boom may well be based on alternative energy, says Geoffrey Carr (interviewed here). But which sort to back?
EVERYONE loves a booming market, and most booms happen on the back of technological change. The world’s venture capitalists, having fed on the computing boom of the 1980s, the internet boom of the 1990s and the biotech and nanotech boomlets of the early 2000s, are now looking around for the next one. They think they have found it: energy....MORE
But that's not all!:
In this special report
- The energy alternatives
- Wind power
- Carbon storage
- Solar energy
- Geothermal generation
- Bespoke biofuels
- Tomorrow's cars
- Nuclear's return
- Energy's future
- Audio interview
- Sources and acknowledgments
- Offer to readers
From The Economist
- The fairness, or not, of limiting emissions
Jun 19th 2008- The future of energy
Jun 19th 2008
HT: Environmental Capital
