Comments on: Potential of nanotechnology for clean energy draws attention of US presidential candidates http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2809 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: AST http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2809#comment-696011 AST Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:57:24 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2809#comment-696011 I'm all in favor of nanotech, but I don't think it's helpful to constantly promote it in a way that suggests it's a quick fix for our current energy crisis. We have allowed ourselves to become dependent on hostile or unstable nations who are hardly as concerned about the environment as we are. We would do better by developing our own natural resources and investing the economic returns in promising new technologies, without announcing the Next Nano Thing until it's ready to market. If I have misinterpreted the state of these developments, I apologize, but I can't imagine anything here enabling us to wean ourselves from oil overnight. I’m all in favor of nanotech, but I don’t think it’s helpful to constantly promote it in a way that suggests it’s a quick fix for our current energy crisis.

We have allowed ourselves to become dependent on hostile or unstable nations who are hardly as concerned about the environment as we are. We would do better by developing our own natural resources and investing the economic returns in promising new technologies, without announcing the Next Nano Thing until it’s ready to market.

If I have misinterpreted the state of these developments, I apologize, but I can’t imagine anything here enabling us to wean ourselves from oil overnight.

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