You might have requested a vitamin supplement with your fruit juice to get you started in the morning, but how willing would you be to pop in for an anti-ageing cocktail delivered through an IV drip on the way into work? Sounds implausible? A step too far even for our
cleantech
Alistair Darling’s proposal for a green investment bank is a laughable gesture for the benefit of the growing green brigade. The public-private initiative would inject £2bn to boost offshore wind energy and jobs — and he says this is one way to move out of recession. The £2bn is far
sustainability
Stop the press!! Calling all you green business gurus out there: we’re getting ready to host Greenbang’s annual awards for sustainability. Think your technology or strategy can make the cut? Let us know! Set to be presented this July, our awards are aimed at recognising the gamut of
For a certain segment of technotopians, hydrogen looms large in our transportation future. It’s the ultimate clean fuel — nothing but water left behind after combustion! It’s everywhere — just pull the H2 out of our vast oceans of H2O! And it’s coming tomorrow! The problem, though, is that
State of the Planet 2010
What will help us solve the critical problems currently facing our planet? An international gathering of thinkers is today mulling that very question … and they see answers in everything from mobile phones and broadband to low-tech fixes and sustainable agriculture. State of the Planet 2010 — which brings together participants from
global warming
So the London Science Museum’s new climate exhibit aims to “minimise the shrill tone and emotion” that surrounds the subject by “satisfying the interests and needs of those who accept that human-induced climate change is real, those who are unsure, and those who do not,” eh? What’s next?
Imagine a future in which all our cars, appliances and industrial processes are 10 times — maybe even 100 times — more energy efficient than today’s models. Wouldn’t that be great? Just think of all the oil and coal saved, all the energy bills reduced, all the carbon dioxide emissions
Jurdy defines irony …
Smart Grid
All the bells, whistles and smart-energy technologies won’t be able to deliver on the promise of a cleaner, more efficient and smart-grid world without buy-in from one key player: energy consumers. That’s the logic behind a new organisation created by an alliance of consumer electronics and technology companies,
global warming
Well, thank goodness. Global warming is good for something after all, apparently. From IndianExpress.com: “Once a flashpoint in Indo-Bangla ties, the New Moore island or Purbasha in the Bay of Bengal, which Dhaka called the South Talpatti, has ceased to exist, consumed by hungry tides and the rising sea.
carbon markets
While the price of carbon dioxide needs to be around $100 a tonne to make a clean-energy economy and a safe climate viable, the nascent carbon market is instead backsliding in price and devolving in multiple ways. In France, for example, carbon pricing has appeared to become more of a
peak oil
The words “peak oil” are being heard more often these days, and in increasingly exalted corridors, but what do they actually mean? Mere inconvenience and higher prices at the pump? Or TEOTWAWKI (for “the end of the world as we know it”)? Let’s look at some of the scenarios
