Ever thought about living like a hobbit from Lord of the Rings?  Its more realisitc then youd think.

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British airline easyJet has unveiled a model aircraft designed to generate 50 percent less carbon dioxide than its current planes. Nicknamed the “ecoJet”, the carrier is part of a major plan to cut air-travel related CO2 emissions in half by 2015.

New Ecojet

A Montreal man has turned a 1986 Buick Regal into a ‘Flintstones car’.

More information about it on Discovery’s Daily Planet website.

Our favorite oil-baron-turned-wind-power-wildcatter, T. Boone Pickens, will make the first down payment this month on 500 wind turbines for his plan to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas, says the Guardian. Over the next four years, Pickens plans to build 2,700 wind turbines that would supply 4,000 megawatts — enough to power 1 million homes.

World’s Largest Wind Farm

With California utilities expanding rapidly into renewables, the Mojave Desert is one of the hottest spots for solar energy. Last year, plans for the world’s largest solar array got underway in this ideal energy harvesting setting and the latest news is just as groundbreaking. Pacific Gas and Electric recently signed the world’s largest solar deal to date, teaming up with BrightSource Energy to produce three new solar-thermal electric plants for a whopping 500 megawatts of clean green power. The $2 to $3 billion dollar deal provides options for additional plants (up to 900 megawatts total), which would be enough to power 375,000 Californian homes!

World’s Largest Solar Power Plant