As many parts of the UK continue to suffer from near drought conditions it was with some interest that the we stumbled upon a wired.com article entitled What Green Technology Could Save the World?

In it the author notes that mid-20th Century the world had, on average 4,000 cubic meters of water per person per year. This has now dropped down to 1,000 cubic meters and below the point officially designated as “water scarcity”.  The article goes on to say that the technology of providing clean drinking water where there is none, desalination, is really the technology of cheap and green electricity because 2/3’rds of the cost is in energy.

Sadly, wired pin their hopes on a new experiment to generate energy from nuclear fusion at Lawrence Berkley labs. While this may show a lot of promise, industrial nuclear fusion still seems to be 30 years away.

What does it say if this is the best idea a technology editor can come up with?