Ooms Avenhorn Holding. The name alone fills Greenbang with joy. But Ooms has done more than provide aural pleasure – the civil engineering company has invented a way of using hot pavement to warm cold buildings. Associated Press says: Solar energy collected from a 200-yard stretch of road and a small
We saw this on Coolgreengadgets – BRAMMO’s ENERTIA electric motorbike. “425”>
We missed this one. And it’s pretty big. John Hutton, energy secretary announced this in December. “Under the current offshore wind farm programme about eight gigawatts (GW) are expected to be generated by 2016. John Hutton’s new proposals allows for that figure to rise to 33GW. The government
There’s an alternative energy place in Wales called the CAT Centre. The locals have all clubbed together and bought shares in not one, but two wind turbines. The locals use the power and sell any excess back to the grid. Imagine that – going into business with old granny Miggins
We’ve said it before, but even though China gets a lot of nagging for all the dirty carbon it pumps out, it’s already thinking about alternative energy supplies on a scale you wouldn’t believe. This time Danish wind firm Vestas has sold 232 wind turbines to Inner
And you thought salt was just for putting on chips or annoying slugs with. That’s so salt 1.0. Pah. Salt has far more in its future. Salt could one day capture and store the sun’s energy and, who knows, start its own religion. (Greenbang may be guessing
Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man. So the Presidents of the USA told us. Not the real ones, of course, the band which temporarily bothered the charts during the mid 90s. What they failed to tell us, however, is that some years later, peaches
To paraphrase Hannibal of the A-Team, Greenbang loves it when a two green technologies come together. Such a fusion can be found over at Lake Placid, a place that, until now, Greenbang associated with a rather craptacular horror movie of the same name. The Mayor over at Lake Placid is
Greenbang likes a good number, does Greenbang. Especially when that number is over $100bn. Especially especially when that $100bn is the amount VCs have invested in clean technology during the last year. The number comes courtesy of consultancy New Energy Finance, who says the actual total of financing transactions concerning
CES opens this week – that’s Consumer Electronics Show, the holy mecca of all things gadgety, to the uninitiated. It’s a veritable orgy of gadgets, with all the big names in the electronics world falling over themselves to showcase the latest, the greatest, the biggest, the shiniest, the most
Scottish and Southern Energy has agreed to buy Irish wind-power firm Airtricity in a £1.1bn deal. Airtricity is one of the biggest developers of wind farms in the world. And this is a pretty big deal, to say the least. In fact, it’s f8%*ing massive. This has
US environmental specialists ‘Energy & Environment Inc‘ have secured contracts with major businesses to develop a customised version of GreenRide – a car pool scheme which tracks the resulting environmental energy savings. GreenRide was selected for implementation by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), the second-largest computer chip manufacturer in the world. AMD
