Students learn about electric technology throughout the year and then come together for a two-day finale.

SunPower designs, manufactures and delivers the highest efficiency solar electric technology in the world today.

Indeed, there are important electric technologies that the military would love to see American private industry develop before anyone else in the world.

"And who," Morrison asks, "will loan or invest $50 billion to build plants for a fuel to be phased out by electric technology?"

During the 1990s and later, Schiffer has returned to an old interest in historic electric and electronic technologies.

After this exploit the gasoline-fuelled combustion engine would increasingly supplant electric technology for the next century.

And many other electric technologies have great potential.

Beyond convenience, he says, there could be another major incentive for switching to electric technologies: money.

In order to do this the Council believes that we need a global strategy to develop the technologies, including, in this case, electric technology.

But a space-based power system would run against the current trend of electric technology, which is for smaller, lower-risk projects.