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Energy saving tip number 10

Invent the next breakthrough in energy…

Changing our behaviors to conserve energy can help with the immediate needs of this particular energy crisis, but a major breakthrough in energy could end oil wars permanently.

Consider working in STEM fields that work to develop new energy sources. If you work for the petro-fuels industry, consider switching careers to new energy. The industry is dying and you don’t want to get stuck with an obsolete resume.

Be aware that the petro industry aggressively works to sabotage the new energy industry, including infiltration of research projects and setting up trojan companies that work to undermine development of new sources of energy by sucking resources from legitimate R&D. For example, companies that say they are developing hydrogen fuels for transportation are very often working on behalf of the oil industry.

But there are many areas of legimate research. Areas of active research and development include...

- Commercial fusion energy
- Low-temperature superconductors
- Improved solar cell efficiency
- Grid energy storage technologies
- Improved electric batteries
- New generation fission reactors that are safer and more sustainable
- Efficient heat engines, waste heat recovery, and other efficiency improvements
- Electric vehicles

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High temperature superconductors.

@holl

Thanks for the correction. I was going to write "room-temperature superconductors", but I changed it at the last minute thinking that I wanted to include those colder than room temperature (that actually exist today), but I guess my mind couldn't seem to write "high-temperature" when I was thinking lower temperature.

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