Google can make pretty much any dream into a reality. Unfortunately, renewable energy doesn't seem to fit the bill (link to the article).
Two Google engineers set out to create or at least imagine a renewable energy that would be cheaper to use than coal.
Their conclusions: "Renewable energy technologies simply won’t work; we need a fundamentally different approach".
Many modern day problems can only be solved by taking a different approach to the problem, maybe our energy systems are the same.
Searching 'out of the box' to find these 'unknown unknowns' can be difficult, and if the Google machine can't do it, it is hard to imagine anyone can. Could the answer simply be nuclear fusion.
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