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
biofuels
Greenbang hasn’t been shy in the past at bringing you numbers – predictions on how much money has been pouring, like a healthy papery tide, into green energy. But the cynics among you may have been saying “ah, but how much revenue is there?” and tapping your nose knowingly. Well
solar
Greenbang was once a university student. She remembers how having to study endless dry tomes and sitting through hours of tedious lectures often felt like watching paint dry. Well, believe it or not, one Swansea University engineering student has made this very pursuit the focus of his doctoral thesis – resulting
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
ibm
Imaging having a shedload of tiny robots to do your bidding. A fabulous idea, is it not? Now the Saudis have an idea to do precisely that, and have enlisted IBM to help them out. Rather than world domination, as tiny robots might be more suited to, Greenbang would argue,
energy
As a youth, Greenbang had a brief flirtation with trying to top up her pocket money by washing the neighbourhood’s windows. She got as far as those in her own home, decided it was a mug’s game and went off to watch Neightbours instead. But for a bit
oil
Do you ever wake up in the morning and want to be something else? Change your job entirely? Become a tightrope walker or a tattooist? “It’s not that easy Greenbang,” you might say. “I trained for years to become what I am – I can’t change that overnight.” If
biomass
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
australia
It’s Guinness world records time, with the news that the world’s largest solar photovoltaic power station gong is set to pass to Australian state Victoria. The Aussies will be saying g’day to the development some time in 2009. The record breaking power plant begin generation in 2010
efficiency
Northwestern Uni has cracked a new anode coating strategy to get solar cells running more efficiently, according to the US educator, which will produce “cheaper, more manufacturable and more easily implemented solar cells”. Here comes the science bit – concentrate. Greenbang will let Northwestern explain in its own words: To date,
battery
Here’s an interesting little development from Tunisia, courtesy of the folks of Kyocera. It seems that solar power is not just doing its thing and getting rid of other carbon-heavy electricity generation, it’s also bringing people onto the grid who have never had electricity before. From this year,
solar
A friend of Greenbang’s maintains he can tell the difference between Pepsi and Coke. Not only that, but he can also tell the difference in taste between Pepsi from a can and from a bottle and even what region the Pepsi came from. Mind you, that friend did also