Inhabitat’s Week in Green: crazy concept cars, the Milan Furniture Fair, and new solar technology

Apr 17th 2011
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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s finest green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

The area of renewable energy received a jolt of innovation this week as Inhabitat reported on a groundbreaking new solar technology that can render photovoltaics obsolete — see Engadget’s take here — and a plan to make use of common oven rust to generate immense amounts of inexpensive energy. We also saw green power projects pick up steam worldwide as Pakistan announced it’ll build its first on-grid solar system , Chevron kicked off plans to speculate in wind power for Kazakhstan , and Eriksson Architects unveiled an energy-efficient geodesic gemstone city for China.

Green transportation tech blasted off as we took a glance on the insane 23-passenger electric superbus which could hit 155MPH and the Phoenix roadster – the arena’s first biodegradable car. Volkswagen also turned heads because it unveiled an all-electric concept version of the classic VW Bus, and we saw sustainable transportation set sail as Zyvex unveiled the nanotech 0 Piranha boat 0 , that is 75% lighter, 40% stronger, and 400% more fuel-efficient than aluminum vessels. Finally, we showcased several hot new green vehicles because the Shanghai auto show started to rev up — Luxgen’s all-electric 1 Neora concept car 1 and Peugeot’s 2 Hybrid SXC 2 .

In other news, this week we brought you the right and brightest green products from the 3 2011 Milan Furniture Fair 3 – from an 4 energy-absorbing lamp 4 that never must be plugged in to the realm’s first 5 color-changing OLED panels 5 to a beautiful 6 pendant light made entirely from recycled drink cartons 6 . We also showcased several designs for greener electronics – a 7 revolutionary paper alloy 7 which may enclose the gadgets of tomorrow and a 8 gorgeous bamboo MacBook case 8 – and we shared 9 7 ways 9 to get your kid concerned about photography.

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