Solar-Powered Airplane May Cross Atlantic by 2012
The Solar Impulse Foundation's airplane taking its first motorized voyage in Switzerland. Solar Impulse takes successful solar-powered spin, engineers ready plane for February flight. At the Dübendorf airfield in Switzerland on Thursday, the Solar Impulse HB-SIA taxied down the runway powered by its own engines for the very first time.  The solar-powered plane was built by

Nissan LEAF Makes North American Debut
Nissan's all-electric LEAF. While Toyota, Ford, and other car companies are focusing much of their efforts on hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles, Nissan is making a big bet on the future of electric cars. The company’s first all-electric car, the LEAF, made its North American debut on Friday in Los Angeles, well in advance of its availability to the general public in 2012. “The LEAF is a new paradigm of the car,” said Nissan CEO Carlos

MCT Releases Better-Than-Expected Tidal Power Turbine Data
SeaGen tidal power turbine producing more energy than expected. Photo: Marine Current Turbines Speaking today at the Lisbon International Ocean Power Conference, Peter Fraenkel, Technical Director and co-founder of Marine Current Turbines (MCT), the UK-based company that designed and developed SeaGen, the world’s only commercial scale tidal stream turbine

The Touch Wood Mobile Phone
Japanese telecom DOCOMO, in collaboration with Sharp and Olympus had developed a touch phone prototype out of surplus wood.  The phone, named the Touch Wood (insert sexual pun here), is a great example of sustainable design. The Cyprus wood case ads a unique look to the phone while potentially offering a  more environmentally sound case than traditional plastic encased phones.  Unlike petrole

T-Mobile Now Selling “Green” Portable Fuel Cells
Best Buy was the first retailer to begin selling the “green” portable fuel cell for smart phones and PDAs. Now T-Mobile has bought-in to Medis Technologies’ greenwash campaign by beginning to sell the environmental train-wreck that is the Xtreme Portable Power Solution. Cell-phone manufacturers are doing all kinds of things to both make their products a little greener and to make their products appear greener. Now, cellphone accessory manufacturers are trying to get in the gam