Blessed by Green Technology
Solar panels, solar roads, magnetic trains, and eco-friendly sky scrapers, are sure elements in our future. Countless inventions are going to follow. Many of them will make our lives easier and more sustainable.
Consider Aire Masks, that convert our breathing into renewable electric power. Solar Paper, which is the world’s thinnest and lightest solar charger. Solar bikes, that can be powered by the sun. Paperless newspapers will deliver via holograms. The upcoming Tesla batteries, that will soon power the most innovative and eco-friendly homes around the world.
Other projects by Dutch artist and innovator, Dann Roosegaarde, include dance floors that produce electricity when people step on them, and roads that charge during the daytime and light up at night. Bill Gates has also invested in this type of technologies. His most famous investment, perhaps, being the Omniprocessor, a machine that turns human feces into drinking water.
Not all these constructions will be completely environmentally friendly. There are many costs and expenses to designing and building all these new technologies. Every piece of modern technology requires precious materials that must be extracted from the earth. This is an issue considering we only have a finite amount of resources for us to build the future. Even more of a reason to use them wisely.
We may not be able to host an unlimited number of people on earth. However we can definitely do a better job at providing essential resources for everyone who is here, and everyone who will soon be walking on this planet.
The problem isn’t the lack of resources, but how these resources are being managed. We need to promote new technologies and facilitate their introduction. We need to focus on innovation, and continue developing new solutions for years to come.
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