Google Inc., typically tight-lipped about the technology behind its data centers, builds its own servers to save costs and because standard products don't exactly meet its needs, Google's senior vice president of operations said.
Stirling Energy Systems is planning to build two separate solar farms, one with the capacity to generate 500 megawatts of electricity in the Mojave Desert near Victorville, California, for SoCal Edison, and a 300-megawatt plant in the Imperial Valley, near Calexico, California, for SDG&E.
That's when they get here that is. All of the inventions in this list are energy based (new forms, the consumption and storage), so it's no wonder why these made the list now. My list would be jetpacks, holographs and artificial intelligence that won't go crazy and try and take over the world.