Innovative Technologies for Future Living

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DOI: 10.1201/9781003409557-18

Burning waste to turn it into energy is a temporary measure and not sustainable in the long run. It must change into a pollution-free solution in the near future. Like waste management, renewable energy today is at an inflection point. It is just where computers were around 50 years ago. In 1965, Gordon Moore, the founder of Intel, made an interesting observation. The number of transistors in integral circuits doubled every 18 months to two years without increasing costs. This meant the computational power was doubling at the same cost. This observation of exponentially accelerating technology at the same cost, later termed Moore’s Law, was not only unique at that time. It defied the odds and ...