The Neolithic Era, in roughly 3000 BCE, marked the discovery of fire, and since then, the world around us has changed faster than any one person can grasp. We as a society, and as a species have adapted not just genetically, but technologically, causing us to grow in population and expectation exponentially. But with technology, mass production, and with the constant need for more comes the overriding need for energy, and lots of it. The energy resources on which we depend now are neither efficient nor renewable, and we are facing the very real problem of depletion very soon. Therefore, we desperately require a better way to provide energy for the masses, and these methods must be solidified before we frack and drill our Earth into oblivion.
