News you might have missed: 21 April 2009
Seeking the latest cleantech news and developments? Look no further than Greenbang’s daily review of news you might have missed:
- LiveScience reports that British low-cost airline easyJet has unveiled a design for a radically different-looking short-haul airliner that it says would be highly environmentally friendly and could be built by 2015;
- Magnus Larsson, a student at the Architectural Association in London, has proposed building a 6,000-kilometre-long wall of artificial sandstone — made from sand solidified with bacillus pasteurii — across the Sahara Desert that could serve both as refugee housing and a “green wall” against the future spread of the desert;
- Scientists believe lead generated by human activities can cause clouds to form at warmer temperatures and with less water, with a potential for altering the pattern of both rain and snow in a warmer world;
- PCs and associated peripherals contribute approximately 31 percent of worldwide information and communication technology energy use, and many companies would like to pare this down, but don’t know where to start, according to Gartner;
- US-based OriginOil has announced an innovative single-step process to extract oil from algae.
