[FireJack]

Wired Magazine

From reading the article its certainly no manhattan level project, rather it seems wired put a bunch of various energy related projects together and called it an energy manhattean project to get attention.

Whats disapointing is that none of these projects show any real promise, most of them simply being possible applications of nanotechnology.

[bonjaski]

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Whats disapointing is that none of these projects show any real promise, most of them simply being possible applications of nanotechnology.

[PolestaR]

Well this is what it has come down to in the race to save our society..... does it deserve saving though?

[Sgs-Cruz]

Let me ask you a question:

Do you have any knowledge of what the Manhattan Project was?

Taking something barely a lab-table experiment and trying to scale it up to full industrial production within a decade? Sounds like a perfect analogy to me.

[oli]

[EDIT: Sgs-Cruz] did you even read the post [lol D&D passive-aggressitivity lol]

[lorenzo]

All the technologies in the article are almost ready to be marketed on a grand scale (except for the 'spinach' PV cells).

The main problem will be one of scaling them up and implementing them rapidly enough. But there's hope. Around 75% of the world's population lives in countries where there is no traditional fossil fuel infrastructure. So they can "leapfrog" towards these efficient technologies rightaway, without the burden of the old infrastructure.

[AirlinePilot]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('lorenzo', 'A')ll the technologies in the article are almost ready to be marketed on a grand scale (except for the 'spinach' PV cells).

[seldom_seen]

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's men,
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

[Lighthouse]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PolestaR', 'W')ell this is what it has come down to in the race to save our society..... does it deserve saving though?