We Need Better Electrical Power Generation and Storage!
by
Randy Mears
The topic of power generation is getting more and more interesting everyday. From mega scale to nano scale, researchers are focusing on creating and storing electricity in novel ways. When you think about how important electric power is in modern technology its no wonder, electricity is at the core of today’s digital technology. As we push mobile technology toward new horizons I worry about permanent (ok, semi-permanent) portable power and how the lack of it will limit us. I haven’t heard of a “cool” law governing the evolution of power generation and storage (like Moore’s law for transistor density or Kryder’s law for disk drive capacity). Perhaps this is because power generation, although much older than digital technology, is still in its technological infancy (or maybe I should just stop looking for patterns in everything).
I do feel that, with alternative energy high on the world’s list of priorities these days, promising research should easily find both investors and markets; I just wish things would move a little faster.
