What Energy Crisis?

What Energy Crisis? ENERGY Miscellaneous 30-3-5 I don't like paying high fuel prices any more than the next guy, but I have trouble listening to the doom and gloomers who keep saying we're going to "run out" of energy some day soon. As an editor who has worked with inventors for nearly 30 years, I am confident we will always keep finding new ways to tap into the energy that's all around us. It seems likely to me that we still have hundreds of years of oil still left in the ground if we choose to keep using it. But we'll probably find far more powerful and efficient ways to provide power. For example, look at our nuclear-powered submarines and ships that cruise the world for years on miniscule amounts of "fuel". Will we someday find a way to miniaturize that technology to power tractors, combines and pickups? There are hundreds of new energy ideas all over the planet, big and small, just waiting to find a market. Here are just a few we've spotted lately:

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