energy harvesting
it’s a veritable smorgasbord of green investment today. First up to the proverbial plate of VC goodness is EnOcean, a German firm that specialises in wireless systems for the builiding industry which are powered using ‘energy harvesting’. Sounds a bit like what happens to humans in The Matrix, but
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Apparently, in the US of A, it’s rather common practice to put some weird additive in the beer to turn it green on St Patrick’s Day. Greenbang wonders why anyone would do such a thing to beer unless it was a punishment or it had gone radioactive, but
department of energy
If you fancy wrapping your fingers around the environmental cash teats and milking the green cash cow that is the Department of Energy, you’ll need to warm your hands with a spot of geothermal energy. The DoE has got $90 million stored in its udders, ready to distribute over
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Greenbang is now officially scared by the US Department of Energy’s neverending stream grants for whichever renewable energy trend passes under their wonks’ noses. Are DoE grants like microbes? You leave one in a room an then when you comeback in an hour they’ve multiplied to eye-watering numbers?
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Wafers: is there anything they can’t do? Hold KitKats together, form that basis of an oft-quoted Monty Python joke, make ice cream look a bit more art punk with their geometric wafery glory and be a lynchpin of low-energy lighting. Dutch wafer makers CrystalQ have bent the might of
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What’s green, a bit slimy and worth $13.9 million? Nope, it’s not Oscar the Grouch with a winning lottery ticket, it is in fact algae: the pond muck that Greenfuel Technologies is aiming to use as a carbon sink. Greenfuel’s plan for the green stuff is
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“Umm, I’m telling on you!” was a common refrain in Greenbang’s school days. The threat of grassing up a fellow pupil to the teachers would be enough to strike terror into the stoutest of prepubescent hearts. It must be a feeling familiar to carbon spewing cars and lorries
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If Google was keen on finding a source of renewable energy, Greenbang would humbly suggest building a bonfire out of the wads and wads of large denomination notes that doubtless make up the company’s founders’ pocket change. Just throwing the spare wads of twenties that have slipped down the
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
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There are some eye-watering sums of cash being flung around world of green tech at the moment but every time Greenbang thinks she’s heard the most number of zeroes she’s ever going to hear attached to the words ‘clean tech’ and ‘venture capital’ someone likes to roll out
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If you take late nineties proto-rave band The Shamen’s advice, e’s are good. If you take the philanthropic arm of Google’s advice (that’s Google.org), eSolar’s good. Good enough to invest a shedload of cash in, that is. eSolar has received a nice round $130
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How smart are smart grids? Could they do the super hard Sudoku in the Sunday papers? Do they have doctorates in astrophysics? Can they get into a packet of digestives without using their teeth? Greenbang doesn’t know. She’s never had one around for tea. But what she does