Move over fast cars. What, still running on fossil fuel? Move over dude, it’s high time you changed gears to clean tech. Not driving a hybrid? Here’s your chance to wipe out your carbon footprint, at least in the virtual world of gaming. For, it is blooming hot in the world of playstations with the world’s first climate change game “Flower”.
 
What the hell is Flower power? Imagine your favourite town with all your favourite cars zooming in and out, but it is a desolate landscape. There are no flowers, nothing to soothe you visually. you are driving in a concrete jungle and here’s your chance to recreate the paradise lost. Play the Flower, for a change.
 
“The game is very abstract. You control a flower petal, guiding it with a gust of wind through blighted, brown landscapes. As you touch different flowers, you gradually bring the landscape back to life — and trees and grass burst into color..”>>More.

Silicon dreams are now made of solar as everybody is venturing into solar these days.  And renewable energy is where all the action is as Thomas Friedman discovered recently in Delhi, even as India announced Nagpur as its first solar city.  Jai ho!

Solar fuels, cars, hats, lights, windows, phones, pendrives ..the list of products emerging from this sunrise industry is most promising, exciting and definetely eco friendly too.

Until recently, Solar fuel seemed too expensive and out of bounds but technology and research has since then comeup with viable options.

Recently, Supriya Pillai of New South Wales in Sydney(UNSW) came up with the idea of removing the use of expensive and thick silicon wafers used in making solar cells.

Phd student Supriya Pillai and her team of UNSW researchers use a thin film (about 10 nanometres thick) of silver onto a solar cell and heat it to 200C. The film breaks into tiny 100-nanometre “islands” of silver and raises its light-trapping efficiency.  The team’s move of using “thin film” cells with less silicon to thick silicon wafers is not only cheaper but also more energy efficient. More>>