Energy researchers warn the world has only a generation to cut its consumption of fossil fuels or lose the opportunity to use them to develop ‘green’ energy for electricity generation and avoid returning to a more energy primitive era.
Maligned as agents of environmental doom, fossil fuels could save the world as they are the core material for smart plastics that farm and recycle light into electricity.
But as Professor Paul Burn from The University of Queensland's Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics told John Austin, the window of opportunity is closing.
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Media: Pofessor Paul Burn, telephone 07 3346 7614
Author: Dr John Austin, Journalist in Residence, UQ School of Journalism and Communications.
