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Green Home Retrofits Compete for Cash [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... Looks like energy efficient retrofits of public housing is becoming the green cause of the year — it’s cheap, fights climate change and cuts the energy bills of those who need them. This week the U.K. government launched a new competition, Retrofit for the Future, that is offering a total of £10 million ($14.3 million) to builders as incentive to improve the energy efficiency and environmental performance of the UK’s public ...

Green Home Retrofits Compete for Cash
Earth2Tech — ... Looks like energy efficient retrofits of public housing is becoming the green cause of the year — it’s cheap, fights climate change and cuts the energy bills of those who need them. This week the UK government launched a new competition, Retrofit for the Future, that’s offering a total of £10 million ($14.3 million) to builders as incentive to improve the energy efficiency and environmental performance of the UK’s public housing. ...

Design and technology at the heart of UK innovation
Core77 — A new Design Council and Technology Strategy Board partnership places design and technology at the heart of UK innovation. The Design Council and the Technology Strategy Board have announced a new partnership that will see the two organisations working closely together on joint projects to strengthen design's role at the heart of science and technological innovation. The partnership aims to: generate innovative solutions to social challenges through new collaborations between designers and technologists stimulate ...

UK Design Council launches mobile phone security challenge
Core77 — ... The Mobile Phone Security Challenge, which is supported by the Technology Strategy Board (the UK innovation agency), is offering a total of £400,000 to designers and technology experts to come up with new ways of securing handsets, the data they contain, and their future use as electronic 'wallets' when m-commerce technology is introduced in the UK. ...

UK begins major trial of electric cars
TG Daily — ... feature of life on Britain's roads in less than five years. This is a challenging target and there is still a long way to go. However, if we continue to work closely with motorists and the industry with initiatives like the demonstrations project, I believe it is achievable." Approximately 340 vehicles will begin trials on UK roads within the next six to eighteen months. The majority are electric, with a small number being plug-in petrol/electric hybrids. A spokesperson for the Technology Strategy Board told TG Daily that information will be gathered on driving patterns, ...

Interview: Technology Strategy Board
Edge Online - Interactive Entertainment Today — While the UK games industry trade body TIGA continues to lobby hard for videogame tax relief, a government-backed organisation is actively courting the development community. Originally established in 2004 and funded by the Department of Business Innovation and Skills, the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has a remit to promote innovation within UK industry. The board has a billion pounds to invest into British businesses over the next three years and it s asking the games industry for advice on how some of that money could be spent to aid their causes. So who has control of ...

Jaguar's Gas Turbine Electric Vehicle Project wins funding
Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — ... studies, the aim being "to develop an ultra-lightweight, gas turbine powered, electric vehicle range extender that will enable vehicle weight savings of 100kg or more and a modest reduction in CO2 emissions on the UNECE101 drive cycle. More substantial CO2 savings can be achieved in real world use. The small size, multi-fuel capability and potential low cost of the Ultra Lightweight Range Extender (ULRE) could also help speed adoption of electric vehicles." Since 2007, the Technology Strategy Board has invested £74 million (about US$120 million) in over 50 low carbon projects ...