Inhabitat's Week in Eco-friendly: 'round the time photo voltaic plants, USB camping pot and wave energy farms

Eco-friendly transportation jumped to new levels now as Inhabitat displayed the earth's first true hybrid-electric plane, and that we spotted plans for any zero-emission hypersonic jet able to traveling from London to New You are able to in one hour. Meanwhile, Japan gave the eco-friendly for the making of a blazing fast 313 Miles per hour maglev train line, and that we spotted a wild high-speed rail concept that will allow people to alter trains while speeding across the tracks. We also viewed being an 11-year-old student piloted single,325 MPG hypermiling supercar and that we saw an 8-ton Volkswagen beetle sculpture permeate the ocean to begin a brand new existence being an artificial reef.

It has been a scorching summer time for photo voltaic energy as Torresol opened up the earth's first 24/7 photo voltaic plant in The country, and Samsung revealed the very first solar-laden laptop to become offered in america. We also saw Aquamarine Energy get started on the massive wave energy farm in Orkney, while Germany hatched an agenda to keep excess wind energy in abandoned coal mines. Finally, we spotted several novel incredibly odd new energy-producing devices -- a t-shirt that converts rock music into electricity along with a energy-producing USB camping pot that charges your devices while you prepare.

Talking about alternative energy, now we caught an initial consider the amazing EDV-01 shelter -- a higher-tech photo voltaic-powered building having a luminous Brought facade that's able to doubling its capacity using the flick of the switch. We also introduced you Adrian Cruz and Gordon Gill's plans for that world's fourth highest skyscraper, and that we displayed an ultramodern paperless office within the Netherlands that appears just like a meteor fallen from space. Finally, we required a unique start looking inside BIG's mountainous eco-friendly-roofed eco village in Copenhagen, and tech expert Peter Rojas handled the question of be it easier to turn your laptop off or place it to settle our Request a Tech Geek column.

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