Inhabitat’s Week in Green: solar panel roads, floating golf, and the two,564.8 MPG race car

Apr 24th 2011
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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s best green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

Building technology got an incredible boost this week as Inhabitat reported on a brand new variety of graphene super paper it is 10 times stronger than steel and 6 times as light. We also took a glance at several remarkable new infrastructure projects shooting up all over – from a self-sufficient floating golf course inside the Maldives to London’s gleaming new cable car system , to the Netherlands’ plan to supercharge its roadways with solar panels .

Speaking of hot asphalt, this week the ultra-efficient Alerion race car blazed a trail on the Shell Eco-Marathon, clocking in an amazing 2,564.8 miles per gallon. Meanwhile, Fisker announced that its sexy electric Karma sedan will hit the street this summer, and we were surprised to listen to that Marcelo da Luz was forced to tug his solar-powered X of one car across Ontario because of road regulations. The recent York Auto Show also kicked off with a blast this week as Lexus unveiled its next-gen LF-Gh concept hybrid and Porsche rolled out a 0 911 GTR 3 0 in a Facebook colorway that got plenty of “likes”.

Finally, we checked out several futuristic example of wearable technology this week including a couple of 1 RoboCop-like glasses 1 which can be able to scanning 400 faces per second at public events. We also brought you a 2 brilliant LED backpack 2 that lets cyclists send signals to drivers, a 3 pollution-detecting t-shirt 3 , and a clock that tells time by 4 knitting a brand new scarf yearly 4 .

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