grid
A new energy infrastructure will need a new type of pylon — or electricity tower — to transmit that power to homes and businesses, and the UK is trying to decide what those pylons will look like. Since launching a pylon design contest earlier this year, the Royal Institute of British Architects
energy
The European Commission is proposing a vast ‘super grid’ using wind farms and solar power to help move Europe to a low carbon economy and secure its future energy supply by reducing dependency on imported gas and oil. The EC’s Second Strategic Energy Review acknowledges the dependence on fossil
computing
IBM is helping change Greenbang’s mind about high tech rice. Previously, Greenbang had considered the bastard love child of technology and rice – that two minute microwave precooked nonsense – as an embarrassment to the human race. What kind of lazy-arsed folk can be bothered to cook rice? It’s not
australia
It looks like there’s something rotten in the state of Queensland. Last month, Greenbang brought you news that Australia’s sunshine state had started a scheme that promised people putting up solar panels would earn 44 cents for every kilowatt they create. Only now things aren’t looking so
australia
Australia’s Queensland is known as the Sunshine State. Just the sort of place you’d want to think about setting up a scheme to pay people switching to solar energy. Which, funnily enough, is exactly what’s been happening over there. Queensland Premier, Anna Bligh, will kick off a
electricity
Ausra is a solar power technology company. While you might think to yourself, rightly, that the firm might have its own motives for putting out studies bigging up the potential of solar power to conquer the world’s energy needs, Greenbang will share Ausra’s latest research gem anyway, as
biomass
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
