Tag: Fuel Cells
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Kurzweil bet the 2020s and 2030s would run on nanoengineered fuel cells. The 2024 book quietly dropped them. Solar, batteries, and power electronics took the decentralization story instead.
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Kurzweil predicted three enabling technologies and the death of print. Three arrived. Print didn’t die.
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Kurzweil bet on hydrogen cars, microbial cells, and sonofusion in 2005. Silicon photovoltaics quietly won everything.
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Kurzweil bet on methanol laptops and coal with sequestration; lithium-ion won, FutureGen died, and the distributed fuel cell is booming — just inside AI data centers.