25 Things You Need to Know About the Future
Explaining the challenges and technologies that will shape the next few decades.
Part III: Fuelling the Third Millennium
Part III of 25 Things You Need to Know About the Future looks at future energy and transportation. Nobody knows precisely how long fossil fuels will last, let alone how long it will be considered appropriate to keep on burning them. However, we can be certain that fossil fuels will not be the bedrock of future civilization the way they have been for the last two centuries. Part III subsequently focuses on alternative forms of power. It also discusses how space travel may be developed to allow resources to be obtained from beyond our first planet . . .
Chapter 11: Electric Vehicles
In the face of dwindling fossil fuel supplies, electric cars, boats and even flying machines are an inevitability. This chapter reports on both electric vehicles (EVs) and the new battery and other technologies required to power them. The manufacturer websites and online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
Chapter 12: Wind, Wave and Kinetic Power
In the future human civilization will once again obtain a great deal of energy from things that naturally move. This will include harnessing the wind and the waves, and even the kinetic energy of ourselves. The online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
Chapter 13: Solar Energy
In the future we will increasingly obtain energy from the Sun by capturing and channelling solar radiation, using photovoltaic cells, developing concentrated solar power (CSP), and even building solar power satellites out in space. The online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
Chapter 14: Nuclear Fusion
Nuclear fusion offers the hope of a cleaner form of safe nuclear energy to power the world of tomorrow. It may even involve mining the rare gas helium-3 from the surface of the Moon. The research organization websites and other online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
Chapter 15: Space Travel
If human beings are to survive and thrive in the centuries ahead then we will have to venture spacewards to obtain resources from beyond our first planet. The supplier websites and other online references used in compiling this chapter comprised:
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