biofuels
Greenbang is tearing down pictures of her loved ones from around her desk and replacing them with snaps of fungus. When you line up the achievements of friends and family next to those of mushrooms, there’s no contest. None of Greenbang’s relatives can secrete enzymes to clean dioxins
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
energy
Greenbang loves a happy ending (not like that) and this story, courtesy of Associated Press certainly has one. After being battered by a hurricane, the town of Greensburg swept away the dead witches and ruby slippers (Greenbang made that last bit up) and decided to rebuild the town greener than
biomass
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
energy
Greenbang must have been having a quick snooze when Rolls Royce was talking up its latest renewables investment this month. It’s still an interesting deal – not to mention a chance to fall back on some lazy ‘it’s the Rolls Royce of energy deals!’ puns – so Greenbang feels obliged
hydrogen
Samsung has mostly been making headlines this week for the departure of its CEO, who left after accusations of tax evasion. But while the suits get on with some reorganisation and presumably some finger pointing for good measure, Greenbang will turn its attention to what’s being developed in Samsung’
leed
Pop quiz, ten points to the winner. What’s new about the “rest rooms” (or toilets to the less euphemism prone) at New York’s Penn Station? No? One last guess? Nope? OK, Greenbang will end this terrible suspense and let you know: they’re being redesigned at a cost
funding
According to this press release in front of Greenbang, tidal energy kit company Hydro Green Energy is now in the position to deploy its patented hydrokinetic technology at a number of projects throughout the United States. What position may that be, you might ask. Greenbang suspects it’s a position
footprint
When Greenbang thinks of the connotations of bottled water, she think of the fake gay suicide pact in cult 80s movie Heathers, where a bottle of the clear stuff is left by a murdered man to mislead the police into believing the victim gay. “This is Ohio,” says the killer.
china
Like Marty McFly and Sam Beckett, China is doing a little bit of time travel, unveiling a plan for renewable energy that covers 2006 to 2010. While you might be wondering what’s the point of presenting a plan that covers two years that are already dead and gone, let’
wastewater
In a recent visit to a national park, Greenbang was reminded not to pee on the plantlife. (Not that she was planning to, she hastens to add, she just stumbled across a sign bearing the prohibition against outdoor micturation). Dispose of your water carefully, the national park warned, perhaps wagging
coal
Greenbang is a big fan of the Germans – a nation that has a love of unfeasibly large two pint glasses of beer, is rather partial to a bit of football and knows that their meat should come in large portions with some bread involved in there somewhere. If Greenbang needed