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Wave energy, long harnessed by bleached blonde surfer dudes, is now being harnessed by the money men. Wave energy device developer ORECon has secured $24m of funding from an assortment of VC funds, led by Advent Venture Partners. ORECon has patented a wave energy device and it works like this:
is finding it hard to sleep. So much to do – so why is he twittering like a gibbon?
Interesting blog on Earth2Tech today, which was taken from the Washington Post. It says that Chinese manufacturers of solar panels are failing to observe environmental duties when using and disposing of the materials for the job. To sum it up: * The price of polysilicon soared from $20 per kilogram to
Send us your questions for the next Mayor of London. We’ll be asking candidates Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson what they intend to do around self-sustainability, green business and eco-innovation. We want your questions. So get writing in… questionsforthemayor@theglobalview.com
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Greenbang was once a university student. She remembers how having to study endless dry tomes and sitting through hours of tedious lectures often felt like watching paint dry. Well, believe it or not, one Swansea University engineering student has made this very pursuit the focus of his doctoral thesis – resulting
Australia and China sitting in a tree, but no, not K-I-S-S-I-N-G, more S-I-G-N-I-N-G… a carbon capture trial agreement. There’s no love, or marriage, or Australia with a baby carriage but there is a post combustion capture pilot plant at the Huaneng Beijing Co-Generation Power Plant. Greenbang will leave it
Hi there With the launch of the new website out of the way, we’re now looking for some new sponsors and advertisers for Greenbang. This is so we can spend more time writing, researching and making little films on innovation. If you think you’ve got what it takes,
Nissan is greening its HQ. You might be thinking a car company making its buildings more environmentally friendly is a bit like a crocodile brushing its teeth in the name of fish welfare, but Greenbang would suggest, to quote the venerable Tesco, that every little helps. The Associated Press has
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Ausra is a solar power technology company. While you might think to yourself, rightly, that the firm might have its own motives for putting out studies bigging up the potential of solar power to conquer the world’s energy needs, Greenbang will share Ausra’s latest research gem anyway, as
Greenbang had never thought of bacteria resembling students until today. You know, bit slack, shy of hard work, but apparently, that’s just what they are. You can’t rely on anyone nowadays, not ever bacteria. Luckily, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIA), Kharagpur has found out a way of
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Tracy Island still lives on in the memory of those who wanted to follow Blue Peter’s build-it-yourself-with-sticky-back-plastic ethos. Don’t go down Toys R Us, just get your hands dirty and get stuck in, the shiny eyed, clean limbed, big toothed presenters oozed from every pore. Perhaps they’d
