While we in the West are focused on innovative thinking, China is focused on innovative doing: they know that if they can make one, they can make a million; and in the energy field, this is increasingly becoming their edge.
The Tata Group continues its quest to bring resources to low-income citizens by teaming up with MIT's Daniel Nocera, who's working on a energy-creation technique that mimics photosynthesis and is more efficient than today's solar panels (read: we could potentially power the entire world daily on a swimming pool's worth of water).