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New material provides 25 percent greater thermoelectric conversion efficiency | physorg.com
Once the domain of space technology, thermoelectric has come down to earth in an affordable way to make it useful for energy saving applications.  Cars, tanks, and power stations may be able to use thermoelectric technology for greater efficiencies.

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A report by Thomson Reuters on the growing alternative energy sector has been published:

Nuclear fusion power project to start in slimmed-down version – Yahoo News. After years of debate the multinational effort to prove whether or not nuclear fusion is a viable source of energy is to go ahead. In 2018.

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AFP: Scientists in possible cold fusion breakthrough.

After years of research, this elusive, almost mythological technology has potentially become the cheap limitless energy source we have been hoping it would.