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Kevin Bullis Editor

My reporting as MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for energy has taken me, among other places, to the oil-rich deserts of the Middle East and to China, where mountains are being carved away to build the looming cities.

Growing up, I lived for a time in the Philippines, where I knew people who lit their tiny homes with single lantern batteries or struggled to breathe through the dense diesel fumes of Manila, so I have a feel for the pressing need around the world for both cheap energy and clean energy.

  • The Methanol Economy

    Forget about the hydrogen economy. Methanol is the key to weaning the world off oil. George Olah tells us how to do it.

  • Energy Research Sputters

    Experts say too much funding is going into hydrogen at the expense of near-term technologies.

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  • Batteries that Don't Die

    New technologies are transforming an old workhorse, promising all-electric lawnmowers and hybrid military vehicles.

  • The Ultra Battery

    A new type of ultracapacitor could eventually have you throwing out your conventional batteries.

    1 comment

  • Biomass: Hope and Hype

    President Bush thinks weeds can supplant oil from the Middle East. Is he out in left field?

  • Moore's Law Lives

    Intel has announced its next generation of chip: with more than one billion transistors.

    1 comment

  • Pumping Up Energy Research

    But President Bush’s energy initiative has too little in it to relieve the oil crunch, say experts.

  • Mini-Robots for Nano Construction

    Tiny robots can operate on single cells and assemble microelectronics – and could lead to cheap nanoscale manufacturing.

    3 comments

  • Flexible CRT Displays

    A new method of patterning nanotubes could lead to flexible, flat-screen displays with many of the advantages of bulky CRTs.

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