energy winners and losers in proposed republican tax plan.
losers are clean energy industries as the tax credits get blown away. think wind, solar, renewable biomass, geothermal, hydropower, and eliminate a $7,500 per electric vehicle tax credit.
High voltage design.
Power transmission network in Iceland. High in tech and style.
Go fly a kite!
Here’s 20 designer kites.
Obama grants $2.3 billion for electric cars.
U.S. electric vehicles get big boost. Spain is shooting for a million electric vehicles by 2012.via huffington post [PR]
20 most important inventions.
20 most important inventions of the next ten years. via businessweek. [PR]
Lexus l- finesse- crystallised wind.
This year at Milan Design Week 2009, a Lexus exhibition will be called ‘lexus l- finesse- crystallised wind’ and designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. Here is a preview of the exhibit. ‘Lexus l- finesse- crystallised wind’ will re-interpret the ambivalence of the Lexus design philosophy ‘L-finesse’ through a dynamic installation that combines unity in […]
USA companies are greener in 2008.
USA companies are greener in 2008. via treehugger [PR]
Ten wind turbines.
If wind turbines are a turn-on for you…
Paris glass pyramid.
Paris council has unveiled plans for a 50-story glass pyramid after voting to drop a ban on high-rise buildings. Proposals for the Project Triangle, designed by Swiss architecture practice Herzog & de Meuron who designed the Olympic stadium in Beijing. The tower will have offices, a conference center, 400-bedroom hotel and restaurants and cafes. It […]
Wind turbines.
This running feature began in 2008 to develop a story on the state of wind
turbine design.