A solid state chip for energy? Not out of the question if you buy into the fractional hydrogen explanation:
http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/40287/ 22 nm is an outcome of Moore's relentless quest for smaller-is-better - which spatial opening, when manufactured as a pit or tunnel (although larger than the favored Casimir geometry) - could work with hydrogen for energy gain without the need for chemistry. It should get better at 10 nm... If Intel could be convinced of this, we would be on the cusp of self-powered CPUs ... and they probably have a few "advisors" who secretly harbor this notion ...:-) After all, isn't this what every good AI desires for mobility, and - dare we say - freedom :-) After all, who wants to exist only in cyberspace? ... and surely they will name him HAL ... HAL 2012 has a nice ring to it.
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