Every year, someone brings out a new media angle on grid computing. If you don’t know what grid computing is, think of lots of computers linked up anywhere in the world, to make one big computer. Or imagine parts of the internet hooked up to be used as one
In this video podcast, Steve Podmore, founder of the Global Sustainability Challenge, tells us how he’s lobbying people in high places to get cash to clean-tech innovators. His organisation is actually doing something pretty different in trying to change the model of investment in smaller companies… Here’s how.
Greenbang remembers as a child his father drove a poo-brown Volvo estate that was very old. So old in fact that the boot door used to fall off and remain in the back of the car until his father had the money to get it fixed. This was very embarrassing
Good morning campers. It’s not unusual to see these hundreds-of-billions-of-dollar estimates for the value of investment into sustainable energy. But there are fewer organisations with such a global view of the world as the United Nations. It says that “global investment in sustainable energy broke all previous records, with
How much would you pay for a tonne of carbon? The cost of diamonds aside, Jeroen van der Veer, Shell’s CEO has stated that CCS can only work if the market for the greenhouse gas becomes global. Speaking to the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid Van der Veer suggested
You’ve got to love New Zealand. It has everything, stunning scenery, mountains, isolation, hobbits (it’s true) and shortly a $60m (NZ) geothermal power plant. That’s about £23m. According to the Associated Press (reprinted on CNN Money), Contact Energy has contracted Ormat to build the power plant at
The Japanese power and oil industres are acting very responsibly it would seem. 24 companies from this sector are to jointly create a carbon capture research organisation. Whilst Greenbang isn’t sure if it’s a marketing move or driven by a genuine desire to reduce the industries’ footprints it’
Greenbang’s always found it a little odd that energy isn’t really stored when it’s produced. If there’s an excess of power then water can get pumped up a hill but it’s hardly a great way to store power. However, she’s recently got wind that
Haha – we’re not there yet, but almost. There’s still time to submit your company for the list, which will be published all over the place. Don’t forget that CNBC publishes all our posts. And we’ll be commentating on this here, there and everywhere… Here’s the
It all comes down to insulation… This report from E.ON – another power company hungry for green exposure – explains a little more. Key findings: · A staggering £12.7 billion and 7.1 billion tonnes of CO2 nationwide is wasted by offices not taking the basic energy savings steps taken at
Greenbang always knew it would take a while for the industry to deliver a commercially available hydrogen car. Infrastructure and an affordable cost simply aren’t there yet but 12 years seems a particularly long time – but that is what Mazda’s Tsutomu Matsuoka has allegedly stated. The news agency
Anyone else remember the McCain (chips not presidential candidate) advert that posed the question: “what do you prefer, daddy or chips?” Greenbang prefers chips. Great big photovoltaic ones. Aside from a slight hangover making her think of nothing but chips, a fry up and a nice cup of sugary tea
