
Let's think beyond simply trying to find new ways to produce more energy, and focus on ways of storing energy. Why? Because this expands ways for us to produce more energy! Confused?
Solar and wind alone are a hard sell to utility providers because of intermittent production when the sun isn't shining or wind doesn't blow. Add utility scale storage to solar and wind farms, and you have a more valuable proposition.
Battery powered cars sound great, but not if we have to plug in our vehicles every 50 or 100 miles. Or what about a new iPhone with a battery that cannot last the entire day.
We have written dozens of posts on energy storage and believe it deserves much more attention from the media and policy leaders. 2009 could be a turning point for awareness around the importance of enabling next generation batteries, fuel cells and capacitors.
List of 20+ Energy Breakthroughs in Batteries, Fuel cells, and Capacitors
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In addition to our weekly awards, every Sunday MemeBox
releases a Top 10 List of some of the most interesting Future Scans
posted the during the preceding week. This list is a great way to
get acquainted with what the Future Scanner has to offer and to
quickly digest some great information. 
The Top 10 Future Scans for the week of March 10 – March 16 (in
no particular order) are:
The Future Scanner Daily Top 5 highlights several of the most though-provoking scans submitted to the Future Scanner over the previous 24 hours.
Scanned by John Heylin
Scanned by Garry Golden
Scanned by Bora
Scanned by John Heylin
Scanned by memebox
In addition to our weekly awards, every Sunday MemeBox
releases a Top 10 List of the most interesting and useful Future
Scans posted the during the preceding week. This list is a great
way to get acquainted with what the Future Scanner has to offer and
to quickly digest some great information. 
The Top 10 Future Scans for the week of April 1 – April 6 (in no
particular order) are:
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The Future Scanner Daily Top 5 highlight several of the most though-provoking scans submitted to the Future Scanner during the last 24 hours.
Scanned by il pinolo
Scanned by Andriod
Scanned by Alvis Brigis
Scanned by chelss28
Scanned by Jeff Hilford
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The Future Scanner Weekly Top 10 highlights some of the best scans submitted to the Future Scanner during the previous 7 days.

Scanned by John Heylin
Scanned by John Heylin
Scanned by Adam Cutsinger
Scanned by Garry Golden
Scanned by John Heylin
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The Future Scanner Weekly Top 10 highlights some of the best scans submitted to the Future Scanner during the previous 7 days.

Scanned by: chelss28
Scanned by: Joe Meme
Scanned by: Jeff Hilford
Scanned by: Zora Styrian
Scanned by: Garry Golden
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The Future Scanner Weekly Top 10 highlights some of the best scans submitted to the Future Scanner during the previous 7 days.
Scanned by: Jeff Hilford
Scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
Scanned by: Marc Cobb
Scanned by: John Heylin
Scanned by: smarteconomy
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he Future Scanner Weekly Top 10 highlights some of the best scans submitted to the Future Scanner during the previous 7 days.
Scanned by: Adam Cutsinger
Scanned by: Andriod
Scanned by: Garry Golden
Scanned by: smarteconomy
Scanned by: Jeff Hilford
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