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  energy challenge and the other grand challenges of the 21st century is "simply imperative to our survival on the planet," said panel member Charles Vest, former president of MIT and curre

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• 10 Apr 08
  

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  He predicted the fall of the Soviet Union. He predicted the explosive spread of the Internet and wireless access. Now futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil is part of distinguished panel of engineers that says solar power will scale up to produce all the ene

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• 28 Feb 08
  

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• 25 Feb 08
  

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  • "confident that we are not that far away from a tipping point where energy from  solar will be [economically] competitive with fossil fuels," Kurzweil said,  adding that it could happen within five years.
  • • Better detection and monitoring of nuclear weapons   components to prevent them from getting in the hands of terrorists.
     
    • Improving rapid responses to possible bioweapons   attacks.
     
    • Advances in genetic engineering to address the   problem of drug-resistant viruses and bacteria, and to create personalized   medicine.
     
    • Desalinization and water filtering to address   the shortage of potable drinking water.
     
    • Tutoring   computers to help meet education needs.
     
    • Artificial   intelligence that better simulates the brain to help create faster computers and   also to aid in the treatment of neurological disorders
• 22 Feb 08
  

  Sergio Ferreira

  future power solar

  • Now futurist and inventor Ray Kurzweil is part of  distinguished panel of engineers that says solar power will scale up to produce  all the energy needs of Earth's people in 20 years.
  • Regardless of any one technology, members of the panel are  "confident that we are not that far away from a tipping point where energy from  solar will be [economically] competitive with fossil fuels," Kurzweil said,  adding that it could happen within five years.
  • "You could, for example, create hydrogen or hydrogen-based  fuels from the energy produced by solar panels and then use that to create fuel  for fuel cells, he said. There are already nano-engineered fuel cells,  microscopic in size, that can be scaled up to store huge quantities of energy,  he said.
  • Desalinization and water filtering to address   the shortage of potable drinking water.
  • Artificial   intelligence that better simulates the brain to help create faster computers and   also to aid in the treatment of neurological disorders

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• 19 Feb 08
  

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