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Transition Time

Posted on June 23, 2008

The cover of this week's issue of The Economist is devoted to the future of energy, and to the proposition that large-scale change is closer than you think. The magazine includes a 14-page special report providing a useful overview of the major technology options for replacing conventional sources of energy. Its editors are correct that it is now possible to imagine a world that relies much less on oil and coal than today's, and that the present demand-driven spike in energy prices and a generation's progress on alternative energy technology make that prospect much more realistic now than si...

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