[Video] Japan's solar city

[Video] Japan's solar city
A solar-powered city offers a model for future self-sufficient energy communities, producing electricity with rooftop panels. Solar panels glisten across Ota City's tiny Pal Town neighbourhood, nestled among strawberry fields in one of Japan's sunniest spots, a testament to the allure of renewable energy in this resource-poor country.

Source: Gaijin Robo

[Video] Beijing discards recyclers

Beijing recyclers find themselves discarded in Olympic Games security sweep. They are being pushed out of town as China's capital gears up to present a sanitized modern city to millions of Olympic visitors. Authorities say a recent survey shows that more than 70 percent of the recycling collect...

[Video] Eco nightclub opens its doors

A new London nightspot, where clubbers generate electricity by boogying on the dancefloor, claims to be the 'world's first eco nightclub' While Surya has its own wind turbine and solar energy system and even a dancefloor that apparently generates its own electricity, Andrew Charalambou...

GM shows off hydrogen car

GM shows off hydrogen car
General Motors calls it one answer to the problem of America's heavy dependence on foreign oil-- Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles. The cars-- still in development - use no petroleum and release zero greenhouse gases. They will be test driven for the next two months by about a hundred motorists in...

[Video] Cow dung power

[Video] Cow dung power
An Israeli company is reducing pollution and producing energy with the help of cow dung. The project transforms unpleasant cow manure from an environmental nuisance into precious 'green' electricity.

[Video] Hot water spring power

[Video] Hot water spring power
Russian geothermal power station provides cheap electricity at no cost to the environment. The power station is on the Kamchatka peninsula, in what is otherwise known as geyser valley.