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If you’ve ever spent any time on OilDrum finding out the lastest dire predictions on Peak Oil, you’ll know how quickly any lingering hopes for a bright and secure future can wither and die.

Whilst I can well accept the severity of the problems now facing athe globalized, consumer driven society, I wonder if our collective guilt over years of living selfishly hasn’t made us embrace a vision of a post-Oil apocalypse a little too readily.

Obviously things have to change dramatically-and probably that’s where most of the hope evaporates, but every so often something comes along to challenge my overbearing cynicism and allow a brief and fragile hope for redemption.

BlackLight Power is one such thing. The company claims to have created a technology which generates electricity from water at almost no cost.

Too good to be true ? Probably

You can read all about it here, and make sure you trawl through the comments at the bottom where couple of people seemingly close to the project weigh-in. It’s almost enough to make you believe that maybe it won’t be so bad after all.

Almost.