By embedding energy-storage materials into existing structures, this sheet technology would allow for ubiquitous storage and delivery of electric power and potential integration of clean energy into nearly every corner of our daily lives.

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Unlike other areas identified by the Economist, where technological process has indeed slowed, and economic growth has gone along with it, there may be tremendous potential remaining in the electric energy industry precisely because it has remained relatively bottled up and stagnant for most of the last 100 years.

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The study identified future potential electric generation capacity of 158 gigawatts for advanced coal, 78 gigawatts for water and dry-cooled concentrated solar energy and 515 gigawatts for large nuclear reactor plants.

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