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Posted By tehranchik 10 months, 4 weeks ago in Political NewsThe transition away from oil and other fossil fuels would appear to be much further distant and far more technologically challenging than most conventional wisdom now suspects. Three of the most eminent American scientists this week suggested that real breakthroughs in alternative energy supply will depend on fundamental scientific breakthroughs that have yet to be made.
The three are: professors George Crabtree of Argonne National Laboratory; Marc Kastner, dean of science at MIT; and John Hemminger, physical sciences dean at University of California Irvine.
Between them, they chair the Basic Energy Sciences advisory committee of the U.S. Energy Department.
Crabtree is an expert on super-conductivity, Hemminger is a star of nano-sciences and Kastner's expertise is solid state and materials science.
They are not pessimists. Far from it. They just stress that the basic science has a very long way to go.
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This is apparent to those keeping track of the different technologies to create electricity. Those optimistic people never realize that there has been an ongoing research into these things. There has been slow but steady improvement but the real replacement is a long time away.
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