US energy startup Altaeros is looking to break the world record for the highest wind turbine, by launching one 305m into the air above Fairbanks, Alaska.
Nest, the internet-of-things company recently acquired by Google, is launching its smart Learning Thermostat in the UK.
Lower energy prices are unlikely. The benefits of a sizable shale gas industry will be in terms of energy security, jobs in the UK and the economic contribution of producing gas here in the UK rather than importing it.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said that councils which back “fracking” will reap the rewards in their ability to keep more money in tax revenue in a scheme to promote the controversial energy source.
A Japanese engineering firm have announced plans to build a Lunar Ring around the moon’s equator to collect energy from the sun’s rays and “beam” it back to earth.