Nano Tech and Green Energy

Nano-technology will play a major role in alternative energy trechnology with many new applications:

RCS publishing reports:

"These include advanced thermal insulation materials for buildings and industrial processes, waste heat conversion into electrical power using thermoelectrics, and technologies such as solid-state lighting based on light-emitting diodes. In the mid-term (5-10 years), hydrogen fuel and devices such as fuel cells will reach the point of becoming competitive in the energy market, especially for transport. The long-term (>10 years) future will rely on solar fuels as truly sustainable energy carriers. These would, with solar energy, use only renewable feedstocks, such as water and carbon dioxide, to produce synthetic liquid fuels.

Nanotechnology research will play a critical part in these developments and will make the systems more efficient and cost effective." See full article.