There have been several recent innovations in solar technology that has have brought everyone to the brink of affordable solar power. Now flexible film solar can be built into most things, including awnings and bikinis. New advances by an American company has made the prints of solar cells onto a substrate at super fast rates.

Another solar product on the horizon is solar paint, Swansea Solar Paint project at Swansea University in Wales by Dave Worsley and his team who have looked into ways of getting energy from the sun. Soon you will be able to purchase solar paint from your local hardware store.

The next step to getting solar everywhere is advances in storage technology, and then cheap solar power electricity will be for us all.

There has been loads of good press about sustainable bio-fuels in the media, so is it any wonder that it’s taken a while to investigate the carbon emitted from these fuels.

Believe it or not the bads news is that some of these fuels are worse than actually burning oil. The government in the US has thrown it’s weight behind the ethanol blend before even checking whether it was actually better.

It depends a lot on the fuel and where it was grown, Brazil grows sugar cane that emits hardly any carbon, but the sugar cane grown in Florida is on a par with petrochemicals. Bio-fuel is being talked about as a cure for climate change when really in some cases this is not true at all.