But despite the growing infusion of capital, innovation and talent, solar power will provide only a tiny fraction of the world's electricity needs for the foreseeable future.

尽管资金、创意和才智仍在源源注入，太阳能动力在不远的将来只能供给全球所需电力一丁点零头。

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This is the future promised by "wireless power", a means of broadcasting electricity through the air to laptops, iPods and other gadgets without the need for cables and sockets.

这是“无线输电”对未来的承诺，一种无需电线和插座就可在空气中传播电流到笔记本、iPods及其他电器的方式。

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At the moment the car industry seems to view electricity as the motive power of the future.

目前汽车行业似乎是把电力当作未来的驱动力。

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If solar power is to make up much of the world's electricity output in future, as supporters of alternative energy hope it will, a lot of land will be needed for the power stations.

ECONOMIST: Solar energy

Pakistan has officially opened its second nuclear power plant as part of its programme to meet the country's future electricity demands.

BBC: Pakistan opens Chinese-aided nuclear plant

Northern Powergrid's chief executive Phil Jones said the investment was to "prepare the UK's electricity networks for the move to smarter power grids needed for a long-term low carbon future".

BBC: Generic water works