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As an electrician, you are constantly dealing with new energy sources that generate electricity for consumers. Solar, wind and hydroelectric power are all part of your business. However, recent discoveries in power generation may change the way you do your job in the next decade or so. To keep up with advancing technology, you will need to keep up with your education. This education will include nanotechnology and flash energy, both of which are explained below.
Nanotechnology and Electricity
MIT researchers created yarn from carbon nanotubes, which connect end to end like a DNA chain. When they coated it with TNT, an old school explosive, and lit it like a fuse, it created small sparks. This technology was created five years ago now, which means that the way electrical fuse boxes are "wired" are about to dramatically change. The implications for the carbon nanotube threads suggest that electrical fuses and boxes are about to become very small while creating a large quantity of power. As an electrician, you will need to know more about how this engineered "thread" works, and probably take a course on nanotechnology before you can install these power systems in the future.
Lasers, Heat and Electricity
Other similar "happy accidents" in the lab have produced the possibility of flash energy, or energy produced by bursts of heat and/or lasers. Heat waves in summer could maximize the amount of electricity consumers are able to use, thereby turning overly hot and uncomfortable days into productive and cool days instead. Lasers could charge and recharge generators. In both instances, you would have to take courses on thermal power as it is drawn from the environment and transformed or take courses on how the laser components in these futuristic generators work. The additional education would be necessary to install, repair and/or replace the systems.
Preparing for the Future
The best thing you can do to prepare for these advancements in electrical energy production is to start now. You can take a course in your free time in lasers or nanotechnology at a local trade school or university. It is highly probable, then, that you would only need certification in the installation and repair of these advanced electrical systems once they become mainstream options for consumers. Even if this technology does not progress to the point where it is a viable and alternative energy option, you still have learned something very useful about how lasers and
20 May 2015
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