Photocatalysts. Essentially artificial photosynthesis. Light goes in hydrogen comes out. It's actually one of the things I will be working on as a lot of promising photocatalysts are novel functional oxides. (Did I mention I do actual research now.)
Well I mean there is that and then you know not being giant energy hogs and just general efficiency improvements all over.
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Maybe it's the opportunity that was missing to get off foreign oil at last?
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Is laughably wrong. The electricity sector in the US is dominated by coal. Changing the way we generate electricity is going to do essentially nothing to change our dependence on foreign oil. It's like saying that your going to stop drinking by finding a replacement for tobacco. The only way the electricity sector will have any impact on foreign oil dependence is if we all suddenly started driving electric cars tomorrow.