ccs
The controversial subject of carbon capture and storage (CCS) – liquefying toxic carbon emissions and burying it underground – is in the headlines again this week with the world’s first demonstration of CCS tech at Vattenfall’s coal-fired Schwarze Pumpe power station in Germany. The pilot starts on Wednesday using Alstom’
Hello, sailor. A phrase that might be internet giant Google’s corporate greeting in the future, if it’s latest plans are anything to go by. Spotted in a filing on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website is a patent submitted by Google last February for a wave-powered
honda
Honda has given a sneak preview of a concept version of its family hybrid car, which will be on display at the Paris Motor Show next month, and is aiming to crank up a hybrid price war with other car manufacturers. The full production version, called the Honda Insight, is
artificial intelligence
No, machines are not taking over the world. Nor should we stop progress. But people are too quick to dismiss anyone who worries about job -killing technology as a “Luddite.” It seems too facile a label when you consider how robotics, drones, automation, machine learning and cognitive computing have rapidly
green collar
The UK government claims hundreds of thousands of ‘green collar jobs’ can be created by putting investment in the manufacture and production of low carbon technology. Business minister John Hutton has set out a new strategy today for the UK manufacturing industry, setting out how it can ride out the
Let’s face it, Sunday telly is pretty rubbish. Once you’re done with the Hollyoaks omnibus it’s time for obscure and fringe sports before settling down to the Antiques Roadshow and Last of the Summer Wine (surely they must all be dead by now?). But Greenbang caught an
tennis
Anyone who could have been bothered staying up late on Sunday evening might have heard/watched the scowling Scottish tennis player Andy Murray beating world number one Rafael Nadal to get to the final of the US Open – a fine achievement, though Greenbang still thinks tennis is just a funny
When walking around Copenmind 2008 I can’t say that there was much of an atmosphere, but there was something causing a buzz around the Bella Centre, so I went to investigate. After talking to a few people, I found this was all over a new technology released by Danfoss,
clean tech
Start-ups could soon be off… The UK could lose some of its best young talent in the clean tech sector because the investment environment is ‘too tough to grow in’, start-up companies report. An in-depth Greenbang study, called the UK Clean Tech Start-up Company Index 2008, found many UK start-up
clean tech
Ohhhh, this has been a long time coming. Welcome readers, to the Greenbang UK Clean Tech Start-up Index. It’s taken a lot of work to get this finished, but finally we’re there. Over the next month, you’ll be hearing us talk about what we found in our
european union
One of the big issues hampering adoption of alternative fuel cars is the all important question of where to fill up – whether that be re-charging an electric battery, or topping up with hydrogen. Recognising that, European Parliament MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a law proposing the establishment of
offshore
The government has given the go ahead for one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms, near Walney Island off the coast of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. The 500MW ‘West of Dutton Sands’ (obviously not many people turned up for the brainstorming session to come up with a name) wind