Flutterby™! : Sci Fi does it again.

Flutterbarians are likely aware of the Dilithium Crystal that powered just about everything in the Star Trek Science Fiction Universe.

According to:

• New Scientist
• The Register
• And others...

Gene Roddenberry may have seen and written about the future, because it seems that lithium tantalate crystals have pyroelectric properties that "strips electrons from the (deuterium) gas molecules and accelerates them to huge energies. The electrons then collide with stationary nuclei in the crystal and generate X-rays" on the order of 10⁷ volts aka 'nuclear fusion'.

It's very early yet.. but maybe a future "SUV" will be powered by crystals... lithium crystals.. di-lithium crystals.