novera
You know that feeling you get when you can see two people flirting but shying around actually taking the plunge – where you sigh and you think “Just get on with it!”? Well, Greenbang has been getting that feeling recently. 3i Infrastructure has announced, after some feverish whirling from the rumour
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Remember how Virgin Atlantic said was going to fly a biofuel plane in February? Well, it’s February and guess what? The flight has flown. The biofuel-powered 747 flew from London to Amsterdam, using fuel made from a mix of babassu oil and coconut oil and no amendments to its
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Do they put something in the water at SAP? Something green, like the Americans do with their beer on Saint Patrick’s Day? First there was Shai Agassi going into green energy, now co-founder Hasso Plattner has decided to kick off Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa, a tech VC fund, with
Lovely little photo story on the New York Times today, explaining how Texans are investing in some gigantic wind turbines. It’s such an incredible sign of the times – one of the great oil capitals of the world moving to wind power. Greenbang was surprised to learn Texas surpassd California
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What is beauty to you? The lovely ladies of Zoo magazine, perhaps, or the smile of a young child. To scientists at UCLA it’s a new material which can help grab carbon emissions before they reach our atmosphere. The structure of the materials – called zeolitic imidazolate frameworks, or ZIFs
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greenbang is learning you need a verb to kick off with
learning to twitter
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Tesla, one of the most talked about eco-car companies and, for that matter, one that shares its name with an awful late 90s rock band, has hooked up with an additional funding round of $40 million. (Greenbang went to visit Tesla in California last year – check out the film.) The
The details are a bit light on this one, so Greenbang will just bring you what she can. Possibly with a cup of tea and a lemon slice, if she’s feeling generous. A few press outlets are reporting that Renault is getting into bed with Sita, a division of
There’s something unsettling about watching animals for too long, don’t you think? If Greenbang watches any of the higher apes for long enough, then she becomes convinced that they are actually planning a takeover of the world ending in our slavery. Too much Planet of the Apes as
According to reports, Centrica is thinking that wind is the way forward and is thinking of getting into the wind farm business itself. And Greenbang thought normal farmers had it tough. Imagine having to milk a turbine. Centrica’s CEO Sam Laidlaw said at the company’s annual results day
