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How low have we sunken in our quest for new energy sources? Low enough, apparently, to burn dead bunnies for fuel. The city of Stockholm, apparently, has an ongoing problem with too many rabbits that gnaw on greenery in city parks and get together to make even more rabbits. Blamed
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Greenbang’s a happy bunny today. Not only is it almost the weekend but the BBC has revealed it is to remake the sci-fi classic The Day of the Triffids. For those unaware of the Triffids, this tale of man-eating plants scared the hell out of UK telly audiences in
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Air New Zealand, Boeing and Rolls-Royce will use biofuel made from the oil of jatropha plants on a commercial airline demonstration flight in December. The ‘green’ jet fuel will be mixed 50/50 with Jet A1 kerosene jet fuel and will power one of the Boeing 747-400’s Rolls-Royce engines.
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Algae is one of the real hot spots in biofuels and the Carbon Trust has launched a research and development initiative aimed at commercialising the use of algae biofuel by 2020. Forecasts claim algae-based biofuel has the potential to replace a significant proportion of fossil fuel – more than 70 billion
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London’s first biogas fuelling station has been installed at Camden council’s York Way Depot. As part of a commercial trial between Gasrec, Veolia Environmental Services and Iveco, a CBM (compressed biomethane) powered street cleansing vehicle will now roam the streets of Camden. The fuelling station will be able
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Following on from Greenbang’s article yesterday about the call for biofuel subsidies to be scrapped because they are a ‘waste of money’, this piece of news caught our eye about the future direction of biofuel research. Enterprise Rent-A-Car – which owns the well known car hire firms Enterprise, National and
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What do Air New Zealand, KLM, Continental and Virgin got in common? If you said they’re all airlines, you’d be right. If you said they’re all international airlines, you’d be right too. If you said they all have vowels in their name, you’d be wrong
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Lufthansa, if you listen to the press release it’s just put out, has ambitious goals. Greenbang hoped that such goals included flying underground in an aircraft the size of a mango: a very ambitious goal, you might say, and one that would shut up those axiom spouting numbskulls that
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According to the New York Times, there’s a terrible new scourge attacking America’s beloved fast food restaurants. While you sleep, they’re out there prowling – on the hunt for yellow gold. Oh yes – the fat hunters are striking. The New York Times says that miscreants, driven by higher
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Biofuels are starting to remind Greenbang a bit of Britney Spears at the moment. The biofuels fall from grace has been somewhat marked: first everyone loved it, like Britney, then the wheels came off as supporters changed their minds about biofuels brilliance and started slating them, again much like Britney,
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Never one to speak out before it’s too late, Alastair Darling, England’s beloved Chancellor, has asked the World Bank to produce an analysis on the impact of green policies, including the likes of biofuels, on global food shortages to be presented to the G7 leaders in June. All
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Greenbang’s a bit, well, naive, which probably explains why she has always thought that the stock market works on the same principle as an airplane. In the same way that planes are kept aloft by their passengers’ belief in the miracle of flight, the stock market is kept aloft