As far as I know this is the first time Gore talks about
nanotech in an interview as one of the solutions for the energy and climate crisis.
For a long time I've been suprised that Gore, of all people, would not even mention this. Now he did. This is probably the most exciting tech revolution in the making and you can hear little if anything about it in the media.
Gore:But the second wave involves the new and more advanced technologies that are ten or twelve years away but with increased and accelerated R&D can be five to seven years away.
Q:Such as?
Gore:Nano manufacturing, positional manufacturing technologies that use carbon fiber and these new cutting-edge materials that don’t require the massive energy for processing ore and digging into the ground and generating these huge waste strains but rather, the very precise use, molecule by molecule, of exactly what’s needed for what purpose. And that sounds futuristic, and it is in that second wave, but it’s coming, and it’s coming quickly.
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