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The Drax coal power station in Yorkshire, branded by critics as the UK’s biggest polluter, is to go green by investing £2bn in three biomass power plants. Working with Siemens, the company will develop 900MW of biomass fired renewable energy. Biomass energy is created when forestry residues, agricultural by-products
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A £1.5m government-funded research project will examine the commercial feasibility of fast-growing tree species that have the potential to be harvested for biomass renewable energy. The money has been stumped up by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the project will establish a number of sites
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Greenbang would like to donate her body to science, on the off chance boffins are trying to pin down the idiocy gene in the human DNA sequence. Greenbang’s fairly certain she’s got it. What prompts this modest assertion? Greenbang’s inexplicable love of coffee from the cafe downstairs.
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A quick Google search on the word ‘Drax’ should lead you happily enough to all sorts of informational goodies about James Bond’s Moonraker nemesis Hugo Drax. It should also lead you to information on the Drax power station, billed as the “largest coal-fired power station in Western Europe”. But
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Mushrooms are fast becoming Greenbang’s environmental superhero. Move over, Al Gore, you’re no match for the humble fungus, despite its lack of documentary making prowess. Last week, Greenbang learnt the little blighters could be used to sop up pollution. Now she learns that they are also set to
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When oil folk go shopping, what do they buy? If Dallas is anything to go by, kidney-shaped pools, shoulder pads, ten gallon hats and even more gallons of gin for the good old gals to drown their sorrows in. If this week’s news is anything to go by, they
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If Shell were a character in a US teen movie (bear with Greenbang here), it would doubtless now be the character at the end of the movie that whips off the braces and the glasses, gets a decent haircut and waltzes off to the prom to be roundly applauded by
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‘Biofuels made from feedstock’ have become dirty words quicker than British Airways Terminal 5. Strangely enough, however, pyrolysis has not. Which is funny, when you consider it the word pyrolysis sounds like an STD that might involve weeping sores. Despite Greenbang’s fevered imagination, pyrolysis is no STD. What it
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Kiwis, universally lauded for their beautiful homeland, unhealthy amount of interest in adrenaline-fuelled sports and rugby and inability to pronounce fish and chips without it coming out as “fush and chups”, have been having a bit of a think about their future energy needs. You’d think anywhere with four
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Biomass power generators always remind Greenbang of Back to the Future II. Remember the Mr Fusion Home Energy Reactor that the Doc fits to the De Lorean while visiting 2015 that converts organic home waste into electrical power? What a crazy idea, eh? Well it’s not such a crazy
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According to popular psychology, you should live each day like it’s your last. If that’s the case, Greenbang has just spent her last day on earth leafing through BP’s last set of financial results. A little depressing, you might think, but every cloud and all that: there
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Greenbang feels a bit like she’s had three cups of coffee and half a cup of sugar: there’s a maelstrom of information whirling about in her brains and she’s not sure how to get it out. That’s what happens if you read government consultation papers for