department of energy
Someone, somewhere at the US Department of Energy has got a little bit mixed up. They’re confusing renewable energy grants with Panini stickers and trying to go for a whole set. In its pantheon of grants, the DoE can list biomass with $7 million, it’s got solar with
energy
Greenbang is sure she doesn’t have to tell you that there’s more than enough crap being slung around in the world of eco-business at the moment. Luckily, some of that crap, in the form of cow manure, is soon to be turned into lovely renewable energy. Yup, last
energy
Greenbang loves a happy ending (not like that) and this story, courtesy of Associated Press certainly has one. After being battered by a hurricane, the town of Greensburg swept away the dead witches and ruby slippers (Greenbang made that last bit up) and decided to rebuild the town greener than
energy
Sometimes the smallest things can have the biggest impacts. Take the Krankies, for example, or germs. Nokia’s latest invention – on show at the company’s design event on this week – is one of those nice baby steps of energy efficiency that warm Greenbang’s cockles far more than they
department of energy
Truly, the US Department of Energy must have captured a dirty great Leprechaun farm and then successfully managed to GPS its way to the end of the rainbow. How else can you explain the never-ending cash it pulls out of its back pocket to fund whatever renewable energy trend happens
australia
When Greenbang first heard that Victorians have opened up more land for geothermal exploration, she wondered who’d been able to time travel back to the 19th century and whether they might want to pass on the message to the Victorians that those flat-fronted trousers and handlebar moustaches are going
electricity
Could you imagine going into a supermarket, plonking your shopping down at the checkout only for the cashier to scrunch up her face, scratch her chin in contemplation, then say ‘Yeah, that’ll be 80 quid please” without ringing it up on the till? Could you? I don’t know
energy
Unless scientists come up with a way of connecting irate commuters and one-legged pigeons up to the national grid, then London isn’t going to be the biggest generator of renewable energy. Scotland however might have more of a chance, with all those windy hillocks and stormy seas. However, in
energy
Greenbang must have been having a quick snooze when Rolls Royce was talking up its latest renewables investment this month. It’s still an interesting deal – not to mention a chance to fall back on some lazy ‘it’s the Rolls Royce of energy deals!’ puns – so Greenbang feels obliged
energy
Ah, the English winter – all the charm of an STD. It’s got icy pavements, frozen fingers and a working day that precludes seeing any of the fleeting British daylight – once you add in a snowballs with stones in the centre (Greenbang salutes the innovative kids she went to school
DARPA
Why is it that spies always get the cool stuff? Take James Bond. Greenbang would kill for a watch that shoots lasers, an underwater car or an exploding pen. Not to protect Queen and country though, more to show off to her mates on Friday night out. Now, the real
efficiency
Vodafone is going on a carbon cutting mission, taking a great big carbon coloured knife to its emissions. Big Red has its sights set on trimming half the carbon off its baseline (it’s a veritable game of carbon tennis!) of 1.23 million tonnes by 2020. Thankfully, it’s
