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/

Hydrogen powered aircraft

Boeing's H2 based flight..

http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2008/q2/080403a_nr.html

When will it be a reality is anybody's guess!

Solar Thermal collectors

I read this in Mr. Gunnar Hillert's blog about thermal collectors in Germany. If you have chance, please visit Bangalore and go atop a tall residential building, you will so many roof tops having this!.

http://hillert.blogspot.com/2008/01/renewable-energy-falling-behind.html

There are some namesake subsidies provided by government controlled electrical distribution companies, but I guess people have largely realized that electricity coming in through wire can be put to other uses than just heat water..

H2 and You!

Interesting site..
"The National Hydrogen Association's Hydrogen Education Foundation has launched a nationwide educational campaign to increase understanding about hydrogen. The initiative includes targeted public relations and the new, informative website: www.H2andYou.org."