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Energy Someone Else's Battery: The Solid-State Decade, From a 2036 Repair Bay The solid-state battery did everything it promised. Who it arrived for is, from a 2036 repair bay, still being decided.
Energy The Wavefront: How the Ocean's Last Energy Frontier Was Won by Subtraction, Looking Back From 2036 Wave energy spent forty years promising abundance and delivering bankruptcy. From 2036, the lesson is clear: it finally worked when it stopped trying to be big, and started learning to disappear.
Energy The Silicon Graveyards: Looking Back From 2036 at Clean Energy's Dirty Secret It is a Tuesday in 2036, and Meera Patel will not let her daughter near the well. From here, looking back, the Silicon Graveyards outside Jaipur are the clearest warning the clean-energy decade left us: a climate solution that curdled into a climate-politics poison.
Energy When Cheap Power Became Worthless: A Solar Trader Looks Back From 2036 It is a Tuesday in 2036, and Marcus Weber teaches risk management two tram stops from the trading floor where he watched twenty billion dollars vanish. The slide he opens with shows a single number: a wholesale electricity price, deep in the negative. Cheap power, it turns out, can bankrupt the people who make it.
Energy The Solar Swerve: How 2036's Energy Revolution Could Eat Itself It is a Tuesday in March 2036, and Maria Castellanos is watching her solar farm lose money in real time. The panels are flawless. The sun is free. And the price of what they make has fallen below nothing.