A recent article I wrote for Forbes just posted online. It reveals a flood of nanotech activity from energy companies addressing their future. Read it HERE.

Some excerpts:

When some guy says he has an answer to the world's energy problem, any sensible person will try to get away from the nut before he starts talking about his perpetual motion machine. But when the person is a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, well, better give him a fair hearing. Rick Smalley is trying to solve the world's energy woes, and he makes one hell of a case for it....

...Energy is to an industrial society what oxygen is to the body. Even a few minutes without it and the whole complex organism collapses.

...As it is, only about one-sixth of the world's population of 6 billion are lavish consumers of energy. To raise the shockingly low living standards of other five-sixths, we are going to need to increase energy production many-fold.

...And be prepared to live with the consequences of others like them realizing the raw deal they've gotten and how little they have to lose in bringing a system down. In short, only about 1 billion people consume much energy and the other 5 billion want to join the party. MORE HERE