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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:


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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…


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Your last green tech finds of ‘09… enjoy!


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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



kepler motion hybrid

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

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

Image credit: Kepler Motors



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copenhagen wheel

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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