ibm
The odd thing about IBM is that whenever it does something about green tech, it’s technically impossible to write anything about it without mentioning the words ‘big green’, thanks to its Big Blue nickname. See? Greenbang just did it then and she didn’t even mean to. She was
ccs
Norway might be most famous for its own brand of ski-ing and whaling, and even the Northern Lights but the country is also starting to hit the headlines with its green policies. The country is about to undertake a £32m research and development programme to develop a more cost effective
beijing
As Team GB continues to smash all its previous medals totals here’s the latest dispatch from Beijing from Shaun McCarthy, chair of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 (pictured left outside the Bird’s Nest stadium) We have all heard the negative stories. Displacing thousands of people to
ccs
To Greenbang’s mind, carbon capture and storage is a bit like making your brownies with beetroot. It doesn’t matter how many times people tell you it’s a really good idea, you just can’t escape the nagging feeling that it’ll end up leaving a bad taste
And you thought there wasn’t anything good to come out of Dallas apart from Dallas , ZZ Top and the frozen margarita. Which is admittedly, quite a good line up – if only the state could scratch Dubya off its list of most notable spawn, it might be a pretty cool
nrel
Greenbang has just seen possibly the most efficient thing ever – not Mary Poppins tidying up the bedrooms of parentless kids using magic, but the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory or NREL, if you will, has busted the record for photovoltaic solar cell efficiency wide open, topping
carbon emissions
Auctions can be dangerous. Ask anyone who’s ever come in late at night after a few drinks and thought that would be a great time to surf eBay. Greenbang’s one experience of being ‘ineBayated’ resulted in an order for a 7″ vinly single of the ‘Romford Rap’ – Chas
bioenergy
Greenbang likes the odd tipple (not before lunchtime, mind) so it’s pleased to see that drinks giant Diageo, which makes the likes of Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Tanqueray, is to build a £65m state-of-the-art bioenergy facility at Cameronbridge in Fife – Scotland’s largest distillery. Not surprisingly Diageo is
road
Over the past months there have been more ‘largest solar plant to be built in X’ stories than you can shake a – well – solar panel at. But, work being done in the Massachusetts based Worcester Polytechnic Institute may have unearthed a system to create solar space from nowhere. Use the
texas
Greenbang doesn’t know if you’ve been watching a bit of the Olympics at the weekend – or if instead you have a life – but if like her, you’ve been cloistered away watching everything from ping pong to men’s weightlifting, the highlight of the weekend was the gold
hydrogen
There are times when I desperately wish I could remember a little more about my A-level chemistry. I can still, to this day, recall the first three lines of the periodic table and some of the properties but the main group of metals elude me. For example, what the hell
