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Solar and wind depending on region for home energy needs; mostly solar. I have a gut feeling about hydrogen power for transportation and industry, which could simultaneously address drought/water shortage concerns as hydrogen energy's only byproduct (exhaust for lack of a better word) is distilled quality pure water.
BTW: On one of the educational cable channels I saw a program on solar energy that said the research is just one breakthrough away from discovering how to harvest a spectrum of sunlight the current technology cannot see that will improve solar electric production 500%. Once discovered, a small rooftop solar system will be more than adequate to full power homes.
I also think we could see more subterranean population centers in cold climates. If you go down deep enough underground, heating and air-conditioning becomes obsolete as the temperature is around 70 degrees all the time.
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Add more stores, restaurants and even housing and the energy needs drop big time.
I read an article on this in a magazine I subscribe to a couple of months ago. It looks interesting...Earthscrapes appear to be the buidlings of the future. The one in the article is going to be built in Mexico city.
Earth-scraper: Architects design 65-storey building 300 metres below ground | Mail Online