COMING soon to a junction near you: the car that 'talks' to traffic lights as it approaches, helping it to cut fuel consumption.

WIND farms such as the one at Nissan's car plant in the North East are not the salvation to Britain's clean energy needs, says a leading alternative power exper t.

Jim Heathcote says his company can one day make crude oil irrelevant. Britain-based ITM Power, of which Heathcote serves as chief executive, is promoting a low-cost way of splitting water molecules, leaving hydrogen as a cheap fuel.