battery
If you want something doing well, do it yourself, goes the saying. Toyota’s version might go a bit like this: if you want something doing well, do it yourself and then Matsushita Electric Industrial Co to help you out a bit. And then go and polish your Prius. Toyota
That flight delays suck is not exactly news. The extent to which they suck has now been worked out in all its numerical glory, however. According to a US Joint Economic Committee report called Your flight has been delayed again, all that sitting around on the runway, reading the in-flight
silicon
Imagine if you could make caviar without actually needing any fish eggs – how good with that be? Or diamonds without needing carbon squished by the earth over millions of years? Or hamburgers without needing any eyelids or scrotums? Well, Sony may well have come up with an invention of similar
investment
It must be nice to be a smart grid company at the moment. Everyone’s lauding your products, there’s a bright future ahead, you just snap your fingers and there’s some lucky devil wanting to throw cash at you. Greenbang warrants that if smart grid companies wanted to
electricity
Don’t say we don’t spoil you. Earlier this month, Greenbang brought you the news of Marine Current Turbines’ SeaGen turbine up and running in the sea off Strangford Lough. Well, now Greenbang has pictures to share. Greenbang realises in retrospect that the fact she has pictures to share
solar
What’s your thoughts on Apple? It seems to be de rigeur for Mac users* to wander around in a haze of smugness and defending Apple as if it was one of their own children at any sign of criticism. Now the fanboys have another reason to love the of
funding
Wafers: is there anything they can’t do? Hold KitKats together, form that basis of an oft-quoted Monty Python joke, make ice cream look a bit more art punk with their geometric wafery glory and be a lynchpin of low-energy lighting. Dutch wafer makers CrystalQ have bent the might of
Schools and sustainability? Must try harder, seems to be the report card from watchdog Ofsted. If they carry on at this rate, they’ll have to go and stand in the naughty corner. While schools should be teaching the future leaders of Britain to be greener than Kermit the Frog,
biofuels
Greenbang would like to donate her body to science, on the off chance boffins are trying to pin down the idiocy gene in the human DNA sequence. Greenbang’s fairly certain she’s got it. What prompts this modest assertion? Greenbang’s inexplicable love of coffee from the cafe downstairs.
energy
Is Google about to get cosy with Israeli geothermal company Ormat? As Loyd Grosman would have said during his Through The Keyhole stint, “let’s examine thur evidence”. Venture Beat notes Google co-founder Sergei Brin said in an interview with Israeli paper The Marker last week that Ormat is a
eco town
Remember the government’s eco-towns scheme – a plan to put a series of brand spanking new carbon neutral Milton Keynes-a-likes over this brown and pleasant land? Well, Housing Minister Caroline Flint has decided there’s no better way to get companies bidding to build the towns to come up with
