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Big Belly for Trash

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 [...]

Half price solar panels, 1/4 price by 2010

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 [...]