The future of mobile devices undoubtedly lies in having some longer-lasting batteries. Indeed, Apple, Samsung, and Google are all investing in developing innovative batteries for their various devices. Even Tesla Motor, the leading electric vehicle company, is developing new batteries to make its models more efficient, which is why Apple took an interest in them recently... Buying Tesla to acquire its battery patents.
Energy and technology will go hand in hand in the coming years.
On the other hand, and as far as energy is concerned, it's worth noting what could be the news of the year (or perhaps beyond if it materialises as expected): aerospace giant Lockheed Martin has declared that In less than a year, cold fusion could be ready..
The cold fusion is the generic name given to any nuclear fusion reaction produced at temperatures and pressures close to ordinary ambient conditions, far lower than normally required for the production of thermonuclear reactions (millions of degrees Celsius), using relatively low-cost equipment and a reduced electricity consumption to generate it.
Generally, the name “cold fusion” is associated with the explanations proposed for a series of experimental results obtained in the late eighties in electrolytic cells, initially reported by electrochemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons.
The cinema already portrayed this theme years ago in films such as “The Saint», «Chain Reaction», «Iron Man» or «Spider-Man 2”. The leap from science fiction to reality seems imminent.
This would be like finding the Holy Grail of Energy, then we would talk about producing it Very cheap, unlimited, and almost waste-free.
What's most exciting about this announcement is that Lockheed is an aerospace giant with vast sums of money for research, with great scientists, engineers, and analysts. They could bring the project to a successful conclusion, which would undoubtedly change the world.
And it would do so in new power stations whose space would barely take up a truck's trailer and with the capacity to supply all the energy a city of 80,000 inhabitants needs.
Many other companies, including several Spanish ones, have been attempting cold fusion for years, achieving more or less encouraging results, but far from the announcement that Lockheed Martin has just made.
It is clear that, whether due to cold fusion or because new devices need to have longer-lasting batteries, The future of energy and technology will go hand in hand in the coming years.. Many current international market parameters, particularly in the aeronautical sector, will change trend, with some growing and others decreasing.
We are on the verge of surpassing 7.3 billion inhabitants on the planet, inhabitants increasingly interconnected with their mobile devices and energetically dependent on conventional sources. If we want to reach the end of the 21st century with the 11 billion inhabitants predicted by the UN, there is only one way to make the planet sustainable: forget paper and have efficient, cheap energy.
In the future, only four or five large business groups will provide internet and energy to every home in the world. Business is changing, and the next 5 to 10 years will be exciting due to the changes we will observe in traditional business models.
