On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:25:04 GMT, wrote in
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Electric transportation will require a major breakthrough in battery
technology which may or may not ever happen, as well as increased grid
infrastructure.

I look for the next venture cycle to be the installation of solar
generating equipment in industry and homes, much the same way the
dot-com Internet boom occurred. As it is, photovoltaic hardware
production significantly lags demand, but large productions facilities
are imminently due to become operational worldwide.

Locally generated power is destined to become mainstream if for no
other reason than the redundancy distributed power generation
provides.