The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat , recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week at Inhabitat we saw several hot advances in solar technology that stand to shape how our buildings are built and how we power the electronics in our lives. CASE in point: this beautiful glass photovoltaic system can be affixed to windows and actually magnifies the available sunlight inside into tiny solar chips to create electricity. In other photovoltaic news, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania just unveiled the world’s first solar-powered circuits . These tiny chips may one day be integrated directly within computer touch screens, essentially transforming them into multitasking solar panels

This whale-like entry into KLM Indonesia’s aircraft design competition reminds me of the French ” Manned Cloud ” concept from a few years back. The WB-1010 would seat more than 1500 people, and use a combination of super-jet, helium, and wind power. The concept’s designer, Reindy Allendra , imagines the aircraft being constructed from material similar to the giant Airbus A380 ’s GLARE composite: Glass-Reinforced Fiber Metal Laminate made of thin layers of metal and glass fiber. The WB-1010 would supplement its fuel use with the ability to harvest wind energy into electricity.

In a plot that’s crazy (and evil genius) enough to be from James Bond, three people have been arrested after police discovered their plan to free a drug trafficker from an island prison using a 13-foot airship carrying night goggles, climbing gear and camouflage paint. It’s believed that the inmate (of the Salto del Negro prison on the Canary Island of Las Palmas) was to scale the prison wall and speed off in a waiting car. The arrested men had setup an elaborate surveillance operation of the prison that involved a camouflaged tent, powerful binoculars, telephoto lenses, and motion detection sensors. But authorities caught wind of the plan when they intercepted the inflatable zeppelin as it arrived from the Italian town of Bergamo.