That means that barring a breakthrough technology in electricity storage, wind and solar are likely to contribute only small - that is, single-digit - percentages of our overall energy needs.

那也就意味着除非有电力储存上的技术突破，风能和太阳能很可能在我们总的能源需求中只能做出占百分比个位数的少量贡献。

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Molten salt storage could store the solar energy and generate steam to drive a turbine for the hours of non sun generation. The first plant using this technology is being built is Spain.

熔盐储能器能够储存太阳能并产生蒸汽在没有太阳能产生的时间内来驱动涡轮第一个使用这种技术的发电厂将建造在西拔牙。

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a hotbed of advanced energy-storage research, and its professors have a knack for turning lab work into companies.

麻省理工学院是先进储能系统的研究基地，其教授同样也有本领将研究成果转到公司。

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We'd venture that North Carolina State University might have crossed the divide by creating an energy storage technology that's both practical and genuinely pretty.

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By embedding energy-storage materials into existing structures, this sheet technology would allow for ubiquitous storage and delivery of electric power and potential integration of clean energy into nearly every corner of our daily lives.

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Nearly three decades later in 2007, while visiting as a professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Yazami and Robert Grubbs, also a chemistry professor at the Caltech and the recipient of the 2005 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, were rumored to have made a major breakthrough in carbon-fluoride technology that would revolutionize the field of energy storage.

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