Skip carbon based fuels for a new grid..

Interesting post on skipping carbon+nuclear based fuel option to form a new noncarbon power grid..
"India must skip the classic infrastructure build expected of them. They have to find another way. Otherwise they will never bring all the country up to developed world standards and achieve true participation in the 21^st century. They did it with cellular phones. Why not with other basic systems?”

Airport powered by solar panels.

Airports can use the large open air space they have to host panels, like the one in Fresno, California, USA.

Water powered clock.

Water powered clock, nice idea..

Kansai goes with Solar power plant..

Japanese city is planning to go with a $46.5 Billion investment to go completely solar powered, quite an investment.

various storage technologies.

Various storage technologies discussed here.

Zero carbon home.

Zero carbon home, a very interesting concept..

Town running on wind power..

Generating 16M KW from wind mills for a town in Missouri that requires 14M KW per annum!. Interesting..

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/22/rock-port-missouri-celebrates-being-100-wind-powered/