Inhabitat’s Week in Green: sugar-covered lamps, IKEA’s solar lamp, and the 30MPH all-wood racing bike

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.

Several breakthroughs sent shock waves throughout the field of renewable energy this week as Inhabitat reported on a brand new sort of “invisibility cloak” that can supercharge solar cells and researchers at MIT harnessed viruses to enhance the efficiency of dye-solar cells by an entire third. We also cast a keen eye at the royal wedding, that is expected to supply 6,765 loads of CO2 , and we explored a brand new wireless charging technology being developed by Toyota and WiTricity. And if futuristic eco cities float your boat, look at this self-sustaining ecotopia designed to provide energy and food within the North Sea.

We also showcased several novel electric vehicles, including the crazy Uno 3 transforming scooter that is now available for pre-order. Alternative fuels also took off as a Kentucky man unveiled a car that runs on bourbon and a mobile greenhouse powered by renewable energy hit the streets of recent York City. And from the area of pedal-powered transportation we brought you the 0 SplinterBike 0 – a bicycle made entirely from wood that could hit a record-breaking 30 miles per hour.

In other news, energy-efficient lighting advanced by leaps and limits this week as we flipped the turn on IKEA’s new 1 solar-powered Solvinden lamp 1 and we spotted a 2 crystalline “Stardust” LED lamp produced from sugar 2 on the Milan Furniture Fair. Finally, we shined a focus on Katy Perry’s debut on American Idol as 3 a LED-studded Extraterrestrial 3 , and we took an exclusive look inside Ny city’s first LEED gold skyscraper – the 4 Hearst Tower 4 !

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