Looking forward to green future

What would we see if we traveled into a green future? It might not look that different. Perhaps we’d notice things more by their absence:

The sky is clear. No more open fires polluting the air we breathe, no more smoke burning our eyes and nostrils, no more haze dimming visibility. Instead, the roar of internal combustion engines has been replaced by whispering electric vehicles, a quiet that makes the green downtown more livable.

The green future is different in one crucial area: power is clean, cheap, plentiful, and dependable. We’re free from the tyranny of energy because decentralized powe...