April 2008
Smart meters: not coming to a home near you anytime soon
Could you imagine going into a supermarket, plonking your shopping down at the checkout only for the cashier to scrunch up her face, scratch
Xunlight lands $22m thin-film funding, new venture
Thin film firm Xunlight might not win any prizes for spelling (but might be useful in Scrabble) but they know how to win the
Oil firm Vitol buys quarter of carbon crediters
When oil folk go shopping, what do they buy? If Dallas is anything to go by, kidney-shaped pools, shoulder pads, ten gallon hats and
Microsoft dishes out funds for power-trimming boffins
Ah, Microsoft. You’ve got to love them. They’ve come up with such great computing innovations as Clippy. You know – that annoying paperclip that
Olympic torch makes more carbon than 624 people
Greenbang has mentioned her titanic hatred of the Olympic (can we have the good TV back now please?) Games on more than one occasion
Broadwind raises $100 million for expansion plans
Greenbang’s always been fond of the story about Kerry Packer, the now deceased Aussie multi-billionaire, media mogul, inventor of one day test cricket and
Carbon gets recycled as paint stripper, petrol
If you’ve already turned your excess carbon into a new CD library and you’ve still got a bit left over, Greenbang suggests you get
Scots paying to generate renewable energy, Londoners don’t
Unless scientists come up with a way of connecting irate commuters and one-legged pigeons up to the national grid, then London isn’t going to
Rolls Royce in deep with tidal electric buy
Greenbang must have been having a quick snooze when Rolls Royce was talking up its latest renewables investment this month. It’s still an
Summer solar to de-ice Britain’s winter roads
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