EnOcean harvests €4.5m for green sensors

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 is in fact far more benign. It…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 22, 20081Comment

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Green pesticides land $10m

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 there you go. Just don't get her…

ByThe Global ViewAugust 15, 20080Comments

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DoE opens up $90m cash reservoir for geothermal

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 four years for R&D into speeding up…

ByThe Global ViewJune 20, 20080Comments

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$131 million for fuel cell inventors

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? Greenbang hasn’t counted them up recently, but there's certainly…

ByThe Global ViewMay 29, 20081Comment

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Wafer maker CrystalQ gets funding boost for LEDs

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 wafers to their will and harnessed them…

ByThe Global ViewMay 27, 20081Comment

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Algae nets Greenfuel $13.9 funding

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 to create algae farms that will suck up carbon dioxide,…

ByThe Global ViewMay 22, 20080Comments

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Car carbon counters Lysanda net £1.25m from VCs

"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 these days. If they so happened to…

ByThe Global ViewMay 21, 20080Comments

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Google joins in Brightsource’s $115m VC round

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 back of the sofa on the…

ByThe Global ViewMay 19, 20080Comments

Energy

DoE hands out $7m for wave energy boffins

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 $13.7 million, and it's got smart grids at…

ByThe Global ViewMay 7, 20081Comment

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VCs put $1.2bn up for grabs for start-ups

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 a couple more for good measure. Greenbang…

ByThe Global ViewMay 5, 20080Comments

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EnOcean harvests €4.5m for green sensors

Green pesticides land $10m

DoE opens up $90m cash reservoir for geothermal

$131 million for fuel cell inventors

Wafer maker CrystalQ gets funding boost for LEDs

Algae nets Greenfuel $13.9 funding

Car carbon counters Lysanda net £1.25m from VCs

Google joins in Brightsource’s $115m VC round

DoE hands out $7m for wave energy boffins

VCs put $1.2bn up for grabs for start-ups

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