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Chris converted from IT Business management to journalism several years ago. Since then he's blogged and written about a whole variety of green issues, preferring to concentrate upon sustainability more than anything else.
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Ever wondered, as you pound along the pavements, just how much power your jogging could be generating? Well, now we have an answer: up to a whole kilowatt during a quick sprint.
This is according to Tom Krupenkin, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin Madison. He and a fellow researcher, J Ashley Taylor, have come up with an innovative new way of harnessing that power using liquid-based energy harvesters embedded into people’s shoes.
A clean tech boom on the stock markets is being predicted by one of Europe’s leading sustainability investment funds, and the boom will be fuelled by Chinese companies. The math, says Nicola Donnelly of WHEB Asset Management, is pretty simple: You can currently buy stocks in a Chinese smart meter company that has the same [...]
Let’s face it .. electric vehicles have one big serious drawback: cables. You can’t go far in them and when you do you need to grapple with some serpentine cable to get energy back into the car. Green it might be, convenient it certainly ain’t. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just drive to [...]
A British business offering turnkey solutions for micro wind power is aiming to become one of the top five producers in the world by 2016. Its innovative new design will provide a fully installed wind turbine for as little as $7000, according to the company’s CEO. Totempower is planning to produce 15,000 wind turbines each [...]
UK renewable energy production fell steeply in the first half of this year, according to figures released by the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC). In the period January to March they fell by 7.5% and then fell by a subsequent 12.1% April to June. The figures now show that only 5.9% of energy [...]
Around 1.7 billion people live in poverty around the world. That’s a quarter of the world’s population; more than the US and China combined and over three times the population of the EU. Of that 1.7 billion, a full 700 million live in India; over 60% of the country’s population. If want to alleviate poverty, [...]
As you may have heard, WWF has launched a bank for holding details of the world’s top green gamechangers in order to inform and inspire people around the world. This post is my compilation of the top five clean technology gamechangers from WWF’s current list. The bank is not a static enterprise and has new [...]
Over in the UK we like to do things … well, a little differently. That stiff upper lip nonsense was always a bit of a ruse, hiding a reckless ability to do those things sane human beings would never think of doing. Like slinging a live four way power socket into a bath tub. Zap, [...]
