Copper end use trends

walking actually carries a heavier carbon footprint than driving, because the carbon cost of making the food that fuels the human body is now so high.

In the New York Times magazine Jon Mooallem details thorough investigation of electronic waste caused by the mobile phone industry -

Robots have all the luck. Researchers have been working overtime to make sure that robots will be able to soft, sensitive skin that feels pain and pressure. Now kindly DARPA researchers are making sure that human beings will also have sensitive artificial skin.

Sure, I could try to predict what'll work in 2008. But I'll point to things like great marketing copy, audience measurement and analytics, your eyes will roll back in your head and my subscriber count will fall even further.

promising a method to build inexpensive solar energy technology to draw energy even after the sun sets

Although the nanoantennas can be easily manufactured, there is still a problem of creating a way to store and transmit the electricity since the frequency of the current switches back and forth ten thousand billion times a second, which is too fast for electrical appliances that operate on currents that oscillate only 60 times a second. The researchers are exploring ways to slow down the cycle.

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14 January—NASA has opted for copper over optical fiber for connecting components in the next-generation space telescope. In a situation somewhat akin to telecom operators' widespread use of DSL technology instead of fiber optics for broadband service, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will use advanced twisted-pair technology to bridge instruments and electronic components across it's tennis-court-size frame, according to NASA.

Last year, critics of the Kyoto Protocol glommed onto statistics showing apparently that the Europeans have been less successful than the United States in ­curtailing the growth of greenhouse-gas ­emissions. “Since 2000, emissions of carbon dioxide have been growing more rapidly in Europe, with all its capping and yapping, than in the U.S., where there has been ­minimal government intervention so far,” wrote the The Wall Street Journal’s Kyle Wingfield, in a typical comment.

There is growing demand for electronic scrap smelting capacity as the number of devices grows and electronic waste becomes an increasing environmental concern, the company said.

The editors of THE FUTURIST have selected the most thought-provoking ideas and forecasts appearing in the magazine to go into its annual Outlook report. Here are the editors' top 10 forecasts from Outlook 2008:

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Candidates looking for an integrated economic stimulus package: look no further! Clean energy and green technologies are the wave of the future.

After working on the air powered car concept for the past 15 years French engineer Guy Negre is about to bring this revolutionary vehicle to the masses thanks to a contract with India’s main car manufacturer; Tata Motors. Not only is this the worlds cleanest car but it is also functional with MDI offering various designs to suite your life style. The Pickup, Van, Taxi, Mini CAT, and family car models will all be made available for less than $15,000.

By using silicon nanowires as the anode, in rechargeable lithium ion batteries, instead of graphite the amount of lithium the anode can hold is extended tenfold and thus the battery’s life.

establishing EU-wide legally binding recycling targets for municipal solid waste could save up to 144 million tonnes of CO2 per year

The Noahpad is a funky cross category Palmtop/OLPC/low cost UMPC gizmo and is notable for its odd attribute including a split keyboard, the ability to fold back on itself and be hung up with a clothes hanger. You don’t see those features everyday.

The Whitewater is a new ultra-luxury shower by Ravak that is not only beautiful, but also trendy and functional.  This shower is made with real glass and aluminum for a stunning, contemporary look.  The Whitewater can be customized with touchscreen controlled lighting and a steam generator.  Talk about a luxury showering experience. 

The “Energy Plus” office building, to be located outside of Paris, is designed to produce all its own energy for heating, lighting and air conditioning. This zero-energy building, according to the designers, will be the greenest office building ever created. It will accomplish this by having more solar panels on its roof than any other building - producing enough energy to power the entire building and still feed extra back into the grid.

"Our market is underneath the existing turbines," he told Cleantech.com. "It's like drilling for oil below where the others drill."