mainstream
How do you follow up a massive success? If you’re the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the simple answer is you don’t: you make Fire and then you go back and sit around for a bit, not bothering the top 40. Eddie O’Connor, the brains behind Airtricity
energy
Are you a sheet metal worker, machinist, truck driver? Roofer, insulator and electrician? There’s a whole world of green jobs just waiting for you, according to a new report. No word on if the green world wants everyone else, staring out the window into the gloom of the capital
energy
If you listen to the Guardian, microgeneration (solar panels on people’s roofs and similar wee energy projects) could soon beat nuclear energy in a fight. It reminds Greenbang of the infamous 40 midgets versus a tiger wrestling match, although the outcome for the micro element there wasn’t so
photovoltaic
Why multinational Bosch would fancy naming itself after a Hieronymus Bosch, a fella who specialised in visions of hell and nasty stuff happening to sinners, is beyond Greenbang. Also beyond Greenbang: the namesake of its latest renewables acquisition. Ersol. Yes, Bosch has decided it won’t feel complete until it’
germany
More goings on at Masdar, the renewable energy company and bunch behind the oh-so-sustainable city set to be built in the Abu Dhabi desert. Masdar’s decided that there just isn’t enough investment out there in solar, so it’s dishing out $2 billion to thin film photovoltaic solar
energy
Can you really have too much of a good thing? In the name of science, Greenbang decided to find out. After watching three series of The A Team without a break, she can confirm yes, it is technically possible. The German goverment would doubtless agree. After subsidies helped Germany’s
investment
Last week, solar company SunEdison put out a press release informing us that utility Duke Energy had signed a deal with it “to harness the power of the sun”. Greenbang was seriously impressed at the language used. Rather than simply buying a load of solar energy from SunEdison, Duke Energy
silicon
Imagine if you could make caviar without actually needing any fish eggs – how good with that be? Or diamonds without needing carbon squished by the earth over millions of years? Or hamburgers without needing any eyelids or scrotums? Well, Sony may well have come up with an invention of similar
solar
What’s your thoughts on Apple? It seems to be de rigeur for Mac users* to wander around in a haze of smugness and defending Apple as if it was one of their own children at any sign of criticism. Now the fanboys have another reason to love the of
australia
Can you ever be too thin or too rich? Apparently you can, if you were hoping to get your hands on a cut-price solar panel after the Aussie government decided to means test a rebate for those buying panels for their homes. No word on if the slender will be
energy
Utrecht may have the unfortunate curse of a name which sounds roughly the same as someone yakking up a stubborn ball of phlegm, but it’s also home to sustainable energy bunch Econcern, which has just put out its latest lot of results bandying around figures big enough to make
corporate social responsibility
If Motorola really wants to win big brownie points in Greenbang’s book, it should think about stop putting that annoying “hello moto” ringtone on its mobiles. Every time Greenbang hears it, she wants to rip the offending phone out of its owner’s hands and beat them with it