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The Cleantech Show #030: Cleantech at the Nanoscale - Interview with Dr. Peter Binks, CEO, NanoVic

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

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The Cleantech Show #30 (MP3 - 12MB - 34min)
Interview with Dr. Peter Binks, CEO, NanoVic
The cleantech sector contains solutions incorporating elements of novel integration, novel technologies and novel business models
In the novel technology area, nanotechnology solutions are becoming significant contributors to solving energy, water, waste and climate problems. On todays show we explore nanotechnology [...]

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Heliostats… Bringing Light to the Core

Monday, May 28th, 2007

One of the things I love about the revolution in technologies at the moment is the shift from Brute Force approaches to problems, based on cheap energy and resources to smarter design based on minimising energy and resource use.
The ingenuity of these approaches were often thought up in another era.
In an age gone by when [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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