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Energy, farms, water seen aided by nanotechnology

Futuristic microscopic devices could store energy, raise farm output and purify water to help the world reach 2015 goals of curbing poverty, according to a report.

A poll of experts by the University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics (JBC), said nanotechnology -- the design and use of molecule-sized devices -- was also likely to have wide uses in diagnosing disease and cutting air pollution.

"This is the most educated of educated guesses," JCB director Peter Singer said of the most likely applications for nanotechnology in 10 years predicted in the JCB poll of 63 experts from around the world. "If even half of those applications come to pass it would be a huge boon for the developing world," he told Reuters.

The experts reckoned that energy storage, production and conversion would be the top use of nanotechnology in a decade, including more efficient solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells and new hydrogen storage. reuters

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