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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Now this is one of those great innovations looking at a societal system and identifying the its ecological and cost structure and then innovating to bring benefits to both.
In this case that system is trash collection and disposal. The system being, installing the bins, collecting the trash and truck logistics, disposing of it.
Big Belly is [...]
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007
The Cleantech Show #003 (MP3 - 15MB - 42min)
This weeks podcast is an interview with Mitra Ardron. Mitra is principle of Natural Innovations a company which provides consulting services on developing businesses around sustainability, and in particular green technologies.
Mitra has previously worked in commercialising internet technologies and co-founded the international NGO Association for Progressive [...]
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
The Cleantech Show #002 (MP3 - 10MB - 30min)
This weeks podcast is an interview with Dr. Tim Finnigan, Founder and CEO of Biopower Systems, a distributed ocean power technology company.
On the show Tim and I discuss the company’s novel approach to harnessing ocean power, including their tidal current power technology bioStream and wave power technology [...]
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
The cost of solar PV is dropping - or will shortly according to solar PV concentrator manufacturer Soliant Energy.
Solar concentrator technologies allow the same level of light to be captured often as a traditional panel technology. However they drastically reduce the cost of the photovoltaic components by concentrating the incident sunlight onto a much smaller [...]
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