Monsanto, Mendel double team on biofuels
You can’t open a paper at the moment without reading some piece about feedstock biofuels pushing up the prices
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Aussies open land for geothermal experiments
When Greenbang first heard that Victorians have opened up more land for geothermal exploration, she wondered who’d been able
VCs snap up Euro-solar double for €261 million
When VCs go shopping, they really go shopping. Wandering merrily through the racks of renewables companies, VC fund First Reserve
Carbon trading 'paid for by small business, car users'
In the land of the long white cloud, the Emissions Trading Scheme that sprung from the loins of the Kyoto
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,