11 great green technologies of the future

The current issue of Fortune has a thought-provoking roundup and slide show of 11 new green technologies that are easy to imagine being integrated into our daily lives. I enjoyed flipping through them to see what's on the horizon, and given that this is Fortune, all the concepts are deemed to be potentially successful business propositions.

For example, check out the Aptera electric tri-wheel vehicle, a Jestonsesque conveyance that will certainly turn heads on the highway. It looks like it came from another planet.

I was also fascinated by Sungevity, a solar power company whose website zooms in on a satellite image of your roof, calculates what kind of solar system would fit there, and how efficient it would be. Cool stuff. Unfortunately, it's only for Californians right now, but that makes sense since the Golden State is pretty generous with solar subsidies.

Fortune also highlights Makani Power, a somewhat mysterious startup funded in part by Google's philanthropic foundation to discover ways to harness high-altitude winds for power generation. The idea is that higher up (above 1,000 feet), the wind is more consistent that it is at ground level. How do you do the generation up there and get the power down here? Beats me, and the company isn't sharing its secrets just yet, but feel free to take a peek anyway.