The future of energy

Everyone loves a booming market and most booms happen on the back of technological change. The world's venture capitalist, having fed on the computing boom of the 1980s, the Internet boom of the 1990s and the biotech and nanotech boomlets of the early 2000s are now looking around for the next one. They think they may have found it: energy. Many past booms have been energy-fed: coal-fired steam power, oil-fired internal combustion engines, the rise of electricity, even the mass tourism of the....Read more >>