Switching on to nanogeneration (BBC)

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Clemens Betzel

The G8 summit has delivered an apparent consensus that action must be taken to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but uncertainty remains on the best way to tackle the problem. In this week's Green Room, Clemens Betzel argues devices that generate their own power must be part of the solution.

As a society, we are beginning to accept that climate change is a challenge of monumental proportions.

While governments and businesses are grasping the nettle with varying degrees of urgency, the importance of small actions of carbon reduction is being trumpeted with increasing regularity.
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This is not a pipe-dream. I know because my own business, G24 Innovations, has just built a factory in Cardiff to manufacture this technological breakthrough in solar cells on a large scale.
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The average {nonrechargable} battery uses up to 30 times more energy in production than it can ever deliver in power. When you consider the sheer number of everyday products which are currently reliant on battery power, the importance of this issue becomes even clearer.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6733651.stm

A longish opinion piece. The author's disclaimer re his business interest is about halfway down.

Note that 'nano' has nothing (necessarily) to do with nanotechnology, it is just the next step down from 'micro'.