Electric-powered transport is in increasing demand, but as with all electrical devices battery life is still a serious issue. A company called EEStor claims to have cracked the problem with its ‘Ultracapacitor’ storage banks, which it claims will be possible to charge fully in a matter of minutes, as well as possessing other advantages over chemical batteries such as a longer working life.

Urban real estate is always in short supply, and where there’s scarcity there’s money to be made. The LoftCube is a modular penthouse apartment designed to be helicoptered in to those last bastions of available urban space – the rooftops. One assumes, once all the rooftops are covered with LoftCubes, they’ll bring out a LoftCube designed to fit on the roof of another LoftCube…

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is starting an investment fund for renewable energy with an expected $1 billion. It ain’t all altruism: renewable energy may not be the highest return investment at the moment, but it’s a safe bet there’s money to be made there.

Predicting the future is still more art than science, but science is making inroads. The concept of a critical threshold, beyond which a system’s characteristics change significantly (and possibly irreversibly) is both applicable across physical and social phenomena, and approachable through mathematics.

SizeEasy is a site with a simple mission, to help people compare the size of two items. That’s a step closer to bricks and mortar online.