Emerging Technology Part 1

Ultra-Efficient Solar
Last winter, a record was set for solar energy by a startup called Semprius. Semprius has little glass lenses which takes up light and converts 34 percent of the light into electricity. It's said that Semprius is so efficient it could soon make electricity cheaply enough to compete with power plants fueled by coal and natural gas. The system works best when the cells receive direct sunlight under a cloudless sky, and energy production drops significantly under any other conditions. Even so, it could be suitable for large, utility-scale projects. Semprius has to begin mass-producing its panels before mass production. The company has raised about $44 million from venture capital firms and Siemens already but plans this to open a small factory in North Carolina this year that can make enough solar panels to deliver six megawatts of electricity. The hopes are to expand that to 30 megawatts by the end of 2013, but a large unknown amount of money needs to be raised.
Technology is definitely getting a lot more advanced, and one main subject that most scientist seem to concentrate on, is that of the prices of technology. Not just that but of electricity. They are finding more and more ways of getting easier electricity, which will be cheaper for everyone using it. It surprises me how much electricity these panels are creating and it's all just from light, so we don't even have to do anything. Our future will definitely be more efficient and complicated. Everything will have a use by technology and it will probably be all that people even do.
In 2009 there was technology considered to be emerging, but now we are so familiar with them and use them all the time. Some of these things include what we use on the computer. Like using software as a personal aid, ultradense memory chips, and liquid batteries that allow cities to run on solar power at night.