We might not be too far away from the days when we just work on holographic projections and 3D images instead of actual surfaces when it comes to pressing buttons and viewing images, but till the days of the Star Trek well and truly arrive, concept designs like the Mobile Script could be the ones [...]

Cleantech depends on energy policy. US President Obama deals with two core climate issues: meeting the larger goal of reducing carbon emissions, and finding a way of rescuing the renewables industry from Wall Street’s collapse. The benchmark of 450 ppm is a crucial figure issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. ‘Limiting concentration to [...]

The current mantra is to ‘reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than 25 percent by 2020 — and more than 80 percent by 2050.’ While these attempts will curb our dependence on fossil fuels, doing ‘everything possible to promote alternative energy’ may also entail ‘financial, political, and technical pressures as well as time constraints that will [...]

Based on the proceedings of September 22 ‘disappointing climate change summit’ at the UN headquarters in New York, there is now a nagging doubt that not much can be achieved in the huge climate change summit to be held in Copenhagen this December. So far, the said pre-Copenhagen UN summit has been ‘the highest-level summit [...]

According to recent calculated predictions, there will be ‘a sharp drop in projected future world oil output,’ alarmingly revising former calculations. This means that there is today a shrinking world supply of oil. Also projected is an attendant ‘increase in reliance on what are called “unconventional fuels” — oil sands, ultra-deep oil, shale oil and [...]

Touted as a clean, renewable, and environmentally-friendly energy source, wind power may have its ‘own environmental problems.’ The energy source’s infrasonic waves produced by the windmills’ rotors may cause health problems in humans that manifest in muscle pains, headaches, tremors, and insomnia. Incidences in Japan have been reported.
“Wind-power generation has been a business success, costing [...]

Metro de Bilbao has announced that the subway system of the Spanish city would run on renewable energy. That would make Bilbao the first city in the world to have a subway system that completely runs on renewable energy. The energy is being supplied by a company called Naturgas.
It has saved about 46,000 metric tons [...]

The donor conference in Tokyo for Pakistan has concluded with commitments of over $5bn over the next two years. This is more than the expectation of the Japanese government which hosted the event along with the World Bank (WB). The massive amount is for ‘additional support’ to the social safety nets, human development, and anti-poverty [...]

Al Gore speaks passionately of the triple crises of climate change, economic security, and national security and says that “it is increasingly clear that the link that unites them is our dangerous dependence on fossil fuels.” His prescription for solution: “Reload the U.S. economy, restore our leadership in the world, and retake control of our [...]

Barack Obama’s energy and environment cabinet has a noble goal to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy generation. His administration has realized that carbon is costly over the long haul. It is apparent that the incoming administration at the White House knows too well that environment, energy and economy are all tied up with one [...]