If only I was powered by renewable energy, as alas I am powered by sleep (stupid sleep) I must make this weeks renewable energy roundup a bit on the smalish side. But fear not intrepid readers because good things come in small packages. Without further adieu, to the roundup!

Ever wanted to make your own oil lamp with common household objects? Well so have I. You could even use your own homemade biofuels.

Cleanbreak has an excelent article about how the cost of solving global warming would only cost .6% of global gdp. Compelling and informative I highly suggest a read.

Vattenfall, a major European energy company, has determined it would cost 0.6 per cent of global GDP to keep climate change in check, assuming the world was consistent and methodical in applying existing technologies for greenhouse-gas abatement. The findings were presented in Berlin last week. “Vattenfall has produced a comprehensive survey of all the measures that can be taken around the world to curb climate change,” according to a company release. “The ambition is to demonstrate that emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere can be reduced to a level that makes it possible to limit the global temperature increase to 2 degrees Centigrade.”

Its a bus, no its a train, no its a trolley? Well its sort of all these things, and its one bad ass way to get people from one spot to another. Check out this sweet public transportation hybrid.