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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater breeze farms, as well as a Automotive X Prize

Posted in July 11th, 2010
Published in automotive x prize
Tags: aircraft,

Each week our friends atInhabitat summation the week’s many interesting green developments and clean tech headlines for us — it’s a Week in Green.

Inhabitats Week in Green: solar aircraft, freshwater breeze farms, as well as a Automotive X Prize

This week Inhabitat saw a world’s first solar-powered aircraft soar by a night sky as it successfully finished its initial 24-hour moody. We additionally took the look at a 15 ultra-efficient cars currently opposed for a Progressive Automotive X Prize. Electric vehicles additionally done the headlines left and right this week as Korean carmarker CT&T announced plans to produce EVs in South Carolina as well as California rolls out skeleton for the whopping 1,600 charging stations.

Heatwaves swept a states this week, though you found some condolence in the contentment of sunshine as Obama denounced plans to kick-start a US solar industry with a $2 billion investment. We also looked during a sleek as well as in vogue solar powered bag as well as an advanced solar cell manufacturing technique which promises to boost the efficiency of skinny film photovoltaic cells by the fourth. Wind power additionally made waves as plans were strictly denounced for the United States’ initial freshwater wind plantation in Lake Erie.

Finally, this week we saw several conspicuous advancements from the margin of biotechnology, starting with an extraordinary new wound dressing that harnesses nanotechnology to detect as well as treat infections prior to they set upon. And from a desk of strange-yet-true comes one architect’s devise to create the unpractical home wholly from beef cells grown in the lab!

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