> We're going to have to work hard (intellectually) to develop alternative > energy technologies in order to survive in decent condition. The only > research group in the world that I'm aware of so far that is starting out > on the necessary R&D trail is Craig Venter and Hamilton Smith's Institute > for Biological Energy Alternatives in Rockland, Maryland. (It is > significant that, within weeks of Venter's plans being announced, the US > government piled in with sufficient intitial funding even though IBEA is > legally an independent charity.) No commercial corporation has yet, to my > knowledge, realised the importance of this at least at board level, but we > can be sure that dozens, scores, and hundreds of research teams will be > pursuing the same trail (genomic production methods) before very long. > Certainly China, with more than 20,000 genomic researchers already, will > not be long in following suite -- and very possibly overtaking America. > > Keith Hudson
Keith, I know very little about this kind of thing, but Ballard Power Systems of Vancouver have been doing some interesting things in developing fuel cell engines. For example, see: http://www.evworld.com/databases/shownews.cfm?pageid=news300802-03 Ed Ed Weick 577 Melbourne Ave. Ottawa, ON, K2A 1W7 Canada Phone (613) 728 4630 Fax (613) 728 9382
