AI
The cost of a mile
Hedging your overhead certainty according to oil price
gas
Dual visions of gas future: 'Golden age' or 'well from hell'
What’s the potential downside to a “Golden Age of Gas,” the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) description of a future with vast new riches of unconventional natural gas and advanced technologies like hydraulic fracturing? For one answer, we might look to one of Total’s gas developments in the
coal
DoE spends $1.3bn on CCS research
Greenbang is wondering what’s carbon capture’s secret. Not the technological secret, more the secret of how it’s sucking in money like a back hole sucks in the Starship Enterprise and/or Doctor Who. The last few times that Greenbang has written the words ‘carbon’ and ‘capture’ and
gas
Exxon tests waters of gassy carbon capture
What’s it like to have an angry Rockefeller on your back? Not a pleasant experience, Greenbang reckons, apart from the potentially ear-pleasing sounds of gold bullion dropping from his trouser pocket as you try to shake the blighter off. One company who could describe the Rockefeller experience is Exxon
alternative fuels
Rockefellers say it's time for ExxonMobil to get green
If Greenbang were to replace Sir Alan on The Apprentice, he would be as sure as his arse has got a hole in it that his idiot charges should always remember two things: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, and always stick to what you know. But
coal
E.ON promises 24% renewables - and gas, coal, nuclear
Ever found yourself falling between two stools? No? Greenbang neither. It’s a daft idiom all in all, but Greenbang is going to use it here and apply it liberally to E.ON, which seems to be waving the green flag with one hand and waving its nuclear power equivalent
electricity
Dell HQ gets gassy green powered
PC box shifter Dell is now powering its HQ – a bit of a beast at 2.1 million square feet and home to 10,000 Dell types – with ‘green power’. Greenbang had rather hoped that meant the company has The Incredible Hulk down in the basement and is milking him
Energy
Gas de France snaps up wind power company
Salut mes potes. Gaz de France is set to become, metaphorically at least, Vent de France, after the energy company announced it was acquiring a company seemingly fluent in Franglish called Nass & Wind Technologie. Gaz de France already owns the biggest wind farm assets in France, making it the