Hummer horse carts, cheap(er) wind power, and make-you-own toilet paper machines… this week’s green tech finds.

• Sony adds to its green cred: The VAIO W Series laptop and Aspen phone both feature power saving and recycled materials. (via Stuff.tv)
  
  
• Trash to energy in Milwaukee: Developer Alliance Federated Energy announced Project Apollo, a trash-to-syngas project planned for the city’s North Side.
  
  

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A bit of a weird, carnivorous motif running through this week’s green tech finds… check out the fly-eating clock, and nuclear wasted-eating material modeled on Venus fly traps…

• How green is the iPad? Apple has the spotlight this week with the launch of its new tablet computer. MNN and The Daily Green take a look at its green features.
  
  
• The Fly-Catching Clock: If common items like clocks and coffee tables could also catch pest (from flies to mice), and digest them into biofuel, would you find that revolutionary… or gross? British designers Jimmy Loizeau and James Auger created some designs along these lines to get people thinking about “using living things as fuel.”
  
  

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Glitter-sized solar panels, green electronics, and cow fat… your green tech finds.

• Lubing your engine with cow fat: Green Earth Technologies‘ G-OIL, a “bio-oil” created from cow fat, has been named the official motor oil of green racing series American Le Mans.
  
  
• Design your own electric vehicle: Trexa has created a concept platform for electric vehicles, which could allow specialty vehicle developers to create cars much like tech developers create iPhone apps (via Auto Blog Green)
  
  

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We’ve still got a ways to go until Spring, but we do have baseball and beer for you at this week’s green tech finds:

• A green Mercedes on the way?: We’ll have to see, but Daimler, the brand’s owner, says it plans to challenge BMW’s supremacy in the “green luxury” market by putting half of its $6.4 R&D budget for 2010 into green tech.
  
  
• Rainwater recycling comes to baseball: The Minnesota Twins’ new stadium will feature a rainwater collection and purification system. The water will be used for washing down stands and irrigating the fields (see the video above). (via CNET Green Tech)
  
  

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The AVN Adult Entertainment Expo was held in Vegas this past weekend, overlapping (not accidentally, one imagines) with the geek-fest Consumer Electronics Show. There were some areas of overlap, with sex booths showcasing 3-D porn, and a sort of “Wii for men” (a box attached to the johnson creates sensations that sync up with dirty scenes on the screen), and what’s being touted as the world’s first interactive sex robot.

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Will 2010 be a good year for green tech? Looks like it from the first finds of the new year…

• Green tech at CES: It’s that time of year again… the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show opened today in Vegas, and CNET is keeping on top of green tech on display.
  
  
• The sun doesn’t shine all the time: That’s one of the criticisms of solar power… but start-up Sun Catalytix thinks it might have a solution to storing energy produced when the sun is shining: mimic photosynthesis.
  
  

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Your last green tech finds of ‘09… enjoy!

• The obligatory New Year prediction: 2010 will be a banner year for clean technology, according to investment bank Jeffries, and Greentech Media. Places to watch include Finland and South Korea.
  
  
• Tetris meets SimCity meets urban planning: That’s the basic idea between new strategy game City Rain (and that’s a screenshot above). (via sustainablog)
  
  

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Because green technology never takes a holiday… here are this week’s finds.

• Salting away solar power: Nevada Power has announced a 25-year deal to buy solar power from the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, which will be “the nation’s first commercial solar power plant using salt storage to distribute energy after the sun sets…”
  
  
• Satellites tracking groundwater: NASA’s GRACE satellites beam back data on deep water stores… and the recent data isn’t encouraging… (via Blue Living Ideas)
  
  
• Interactive greenhouse gas emissions trends: The AP’s interactive map of global warming gas emissions by country is just one element of the stellar coverage they provided during and after the Copenhagen Climate Conference. (via EcoGeek)
  
  
• Water footprints: Carbon gets all the press, but producing energy, regardless of the source, takes a lot of water… (via GreenTech Pastures)
  
  
• Those speedy French: According to Cleantechies, France is about 30 years ahead of the US on high-speed rail development… c’est dommage!
  
  
• Data centers, waste heat, and cathedrals: Helsinki’s Upsenki Cathedral will host a server farm for tech company Academica, and the waste heat produced will be channeled into the city’s district heating system. (via MNN)
  
  
• Leak those leaks… via your iPhone: Seen waste, pollution, or inefficiency at a public space or business? The EcoSnoop iPhone app lets you report it to the world… (via Treehugger)
  
  

Happy holidays! Of course, share any finds you have with us below…

Image credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eisenbahner/ / CC BY 2.0

Satellite deforestation tracking, a muscle hybrid, and DIY solar panels… this week’s green tech finds.

• Vampire-proof your home: Charger maker iGo has launched three new products designed to help you reduce the use of standby power (i.e. vampire power).
  
  
• An 800hp hybrid? That’s what start-up Kepler Motors claims about its concept the Motion (pictured above). They’re shooting for a 2011 release… (via DVICE and EcoTech Daily)
  
  
• But does it still bang the dumpster around at godawful hours? NYC is testing out a hybrid garbage truck… (via GreenTech Pastures)
  
  
• Oklahoma is OK! Through the end of the year, Oklahoma residents can buy a Kandi Coco neighborhood electric vehicle for less than $900 (after state and federal tax incentives). It’s not going to get you out on the interstate (tops out at 25 mph), but we appreciate the idea… (via EcoGeek)
  
  
• Datacenter excess heat = warmth for greenhouse plants: Notre Dame University has figured out a novel way to remove excess heat from its datacenters — it’s going to pump it into greehouses at the Ella Morris and Muessel-Ellison Botanical Conservatories and Potawatomi Greenhouse. (via Cleantechnica)
  
  
• DIY solar panels? A number of the big box stores are selling them, but BC Upham at Triplepundit points out some of the difficulties of do-it-yourself installation.
  
  
• Award-winning water recycling: The Ozzi Kleen Greywater Treatment System has won the Suncoast Waste Water Management 2009 Environment Award. (via Blue Living Ideas)
  
  
• Google fights deforestation: In Copenhagen, the tech giant announced its “high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine” for tracking the world’s forests. (via Earth 911 and MNN)
  
  

Don’t forget to share your own green tech finds with us… drop them in the comments below.

Image credit: Kepler Motors

While most of the news we’ve heard coming out of Copenhagen involves climate negotiations among world leaders, the Danish capital is also hosting business expos, technology demonstrations, and even artistic events during the UN Climate Summit. Yesterday, the team from MIT’s SENSEable City Lab joined in the festivities to unveil the Copenhagen Wheel, a simple enhancement for ordinary bicycles designed to make city cycling a little less taxing, and a little smarter.

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Another week, another group of green tech finds. First, a few more from Finland:

• Jen Boynton at TriplePundit discusses four game-changing technologies you’ve never heard of…
• Ian Thomson at Cleantechies gives his opinion of Tekes, Finland’s government agency for funding R&D and start-ups… I had a different take on this organization at sustainablog.

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