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Energy was a hot topic at the 2009 APS March Meeting. Eleven sessions had titles explicitly addressing energy generation or storage, compared to zero at least year’s meeting, and two at the 2007 meeting. An additional five sessions at this year’s meeting were devoted to hydrogen storage, which is crucial if hydrogen is to be used as a motor fuel. A number of talks focused on the use of polymers in the development of new batteries, fuel cells, and photovoltaics. In batteries, the race is on to improve on the current generation of lithiumion batteries found in our laptops and cell phones, with the goal of creating batteries that can power the electric cars we have all heard so much about. According to Mohit Singh, cofounder of the startup company