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UN weighs in on biofuels fight
Extra-governmental bodies complaining about the environmental impact of biofuels are like buses aren’t they? After the EC got a bit shirty about biofuel, now the United Nations wants in on the act, says Associated Press. The world’s rush to embrace biofuels is causing a spike in the price
Diversified Energy shows off greasy fuel
Eating bread and dripping really has gone out of fashion of late. It’s a fact that brings a nostalgic tear to the eye of Greenbang Senior and probably generates a bit of high fiving over at Diversified Energy. For Diversified Energy have been showing off some new biofuel-making tech
Fuel-from-algae shines at Sundance
Algae and beer might be more similar than you thought (although Greenbang would warrant only one of them tastes good with a packet of dry roasted and the cup final). Biofuel company Solazyme sees the link. When it makes fuel out of algae, it uses a process similar to industrial
Finavera predicts the future
Finavera has been a bit of a poster boy – or should that be poster buoy? – for wave power lately, after signing a deal with utility firm Pacific Gas and Electric last year. Now Finavera’s CEO is giving you – yes, you, you lucky devil – a bit of an insight into
Lowestoft wave tech gets Trident tested
The Trident machine sounds like it possibly destroy entire civilisations in the single press of deranged dictator’s finger upon a big, red button.Sounds like that but thankfully isn’t. It is a bit of wave tech kit to be tested by Trident Energy on the Suffolk coast. Trident
Qiangsheng $250 million IPO shows solar flair
Thin film maker Qiangsheng Photovoltaic Technology Co Ltd is eyeing the market as hungrily as drunk man eyes a kebab. Even more hungrily considering that kebab is worth $250 million. For Qiangsheng is going public, planning an IPO it hopes will net a quarter of a million. Once its on
Fat Spaniel gets $18 million for renewable monitoring
And award for the best company name goes to (envelope rustles, a silence descends)…. Fat Spaniel! Of course, Greenbang’s plaudits probably pales in comparison to the $18 million VCs have flung the way of the renewable energy monitoring and reporting systems company. Here’s a few more details to
Israel gets electric car network
The Israeli government has announced a deal to encourage its citizens to buy electric cars. Does this mean grants for Scalectrix purchases? Alas not, it’s given its official thumbs up to a plan by Renault-Nissan and Project Better Place to get a hybrid network going. Like a great big
UK signs up to EC's renewable plan
And lo, it came to pass that Blighty finally got its act together and signed its X on the renewable energy line. After what Greenbang can only imagine was a prolonged case of peanut war, the UK finally signed up to a carbon-murdering plan from the EU. With a spring
Scots must lay pipe for green energy transport
So you’ve got your wind and your wave generators. You’ve got all this energy knocking about in remote bits of Scotland and where are you going to put it? And transport it around? Hmm? Thought about that? No? Tut. Now go and tidy your room. Luckily the Scots
EU serves up climate orders
There is a lot of moaning about this in the press today. The European Commission has said all 27 member countries have to get 20 per cent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020. The UK is on track to do 15 per cent by then, so there’s