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Materials science as key enabler for clean energy transition

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If you don’t change direction, you will end up where you are heading,” said Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism. Thee second valley is the scale-up from small pilot projects to commercial-size facilities, where economies of scale can be used to dramatically reduce costs. Where are we heading? —Chu et al. Renewable energy future.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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But that might be mitigated, in theory, if space solar displaced fossil fuels and helped the world transition to clean electricity. Space Solar Power at Peak Hype—Again For decades, enthusiasm for the possibility of drawing limitless, mostly clean power from the one fusion reactor we know works reliably—the sun—has run hot and cold.

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