Like fuel-gathering pixies, scientists from Los Alamos have invented a new system, called -somewhat painfully – Green Freedom, to harvest carbon from the air and then turn it into fuel using electrochemical. The principal market, according to those pixies, is see get the system carried on airplanes and cars. “Our concept
Check out Carbon Connections conference next week. But don’t take our word for it – hear the p p p podcast… The short version is: Stimulating Low Carbon Innovation through Knowledge Transfer Thursday, February 28th at the RIBA headquarters, 66 Portland Place in London. So there.
“Watch out, farmers! Biofuels and climate change are coming to steal your crops!” Greenbang is paraphrasing Conservative leader David Cameron, speaking to the National Farmers’ Union yesterday. Apparently the large-foreheaded one has warned assorted farming types that the times they are a changing. Here’s a snapshot of his speech:
Have you been walking around the supermarkets, secretly cursing the arrival of Easter eggs ever earlier on their shelves, but not wanting to admit it, in case it’s a sign on early onset curmudgeon-ness or old age? Greenbang has. Still, Greenbang was slightly cheered to hear Cadbury is doing
Imagine the UK’s SMEs. No, nothing to do with Captain Hook’s sidekick, but the nation’s small and medium sized business. Are they a carbon loathing, eco-friendly bunch? Are they heck. According to a survey by npower business, UK SMEs and, for that matter, some larger companies reckon
There are many things you can do with the sun. Many. Many, many. Like not look at it and then look at it when there are eclipses. Now there’s one more thing you can do with it. According to Science Daily, researchers at Penn State have worked out a
Scientists are making more plants bend to their will. According to the latest edition of Nature Genetics the white coated folk have come up with a way of milking corn for maximum oil. Scientists have identified the gene determining the oil yield and, by monkeying around with it, can create
Check out this event if you get time – Green & Global Market Instability: How to keep the Climate Change agenda on course. Wednesday, 5th March 2008, 17.00-19.00, One Silk Street, London Greenbang is a media sponsor for the event, so we’ll be there. Ben Patten of GreenBiz
We’ve put this interview on podcast, if you want to listen…
By Dan Ilett I first heard about Shai Agassi about a year ago when I wrote for the Financial Times about him leaving software giant SAP. He’d quit as deputy CEO to move into the green-energy space. At the time, I was contemplating how to move from writing about
The world of carbon offsetting has been subject to some mudslinging of late, according to Planktos, a company which had hoped to use “ocean fertilisation” to generate carbon credits. The company, which was planning to stimulate the growth of plankton as a means of removing carbon from the atmosphere, has
Aside from growing a beard that outshines both Noel Edmonds’s and Santa Claus’s put together, Richard Branson has been spreading a bit of environmental love as he goes. There was the Virgin Earth Prize, Chinese clean tech firm not to mention the biofuel powered plane, to mention a
