Google Wants To Help You Buy Solar Panels For Your House. Seriously.
An article by Ryan Koronowski, Think Progress. If you to want to install solar panels on your roof but haven’t yet because it’s too expensive, Google really wants to help. The search giant, valued at $370 billion, is once again boosting its investment in SolarCity’s residential solar power model by $300 million, both companies announced Read on…
UK’s first ‘poo bus’ hits the road
An article by Press Association, The Guardian. Britain’s first ‘Bio-Bus’ powered entirely by human and food waste takes to the streets between Bath and Bristol. Britain’s first ‘poo bus’ will take to the road on Thursday, powered entirely by human and food waste. The 40-seat “Bio-Bus” runs on biomethane gas, generated through the treatment of Read on…
Cleaning-up Bali, making fuel from plastic
An article by Trisha Sertori, The Jakarta Post. In Bali, where fuel is heavily subsidized (at the risk of crippling the national budget), an elderly man cooks his rice with fuel harvested from plastic. The cacophony of Denpasar’s traffic fades as you enter Pekambingan village, home of a self-taught inventor, Ida Bagus Ketut Atmaja. Shade Read on…