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SeaGen – Our Green Future Is Now

Linda — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:30:22 +0000

The Future Is Here When Fun Finds The Green Innovation Since May 2008 the innovative tide-harnessing turbine known as SeaGen has been securely in place, linked up to the grid, and turning the rapid ebbs and flows of Northern Ireland’s Strangford Lough into green electricity. The largest tidal stream power device in the world it is [...]

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SkyTran One Year Later

Linda — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:25:51 +0000

Revisiting A Forced Green Favorite A year ago this week Forced Green posted an article on Unimodal System’s revolutionary SkyTran. Propelled along by magnetic levitation, the driverless 2 – 3 person vehicles are kept safe and secure on elevated guideways utilizing standard utility poles and universally available stock items. So, are we any closer to actually [...]

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Riding The Solar Roadway To A Green Future

Linda — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 04:28:13 +0000

Gettin’ Your Kicks On A Green Route 66 The U.S. highway system is broken. We’re barely keeping up with the costs of maintaining our roads and bridges. A gamble we lose at times, with tragic results. New materials and technologies have to be found to replace our current archaic system. Well, now hear this — Solar Roadways [...]

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Green Inspiration Spans Centuries

Linda — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:03:49 +0000

Helping The Environment On A Modest Budget In 1738 English architect John F. Brondel developed the first flush valve toilet. Brondel’s invention utilized a valve to control the amount of water flushed with the simple push of a lever, making toilets more hygienic and allowed “out-house” toilets to be incorporated inside the home itself. Brondel’s innovations [...]

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Fast And Green Texas T Bone

Linda — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:40:26 +0000

We’ll Take This Texas T-Bone – Well Done – Not Rare The Texas High Speed Rail and Transportation Corporation (THSRTC) is a not-for-profit corporation consisting of local transportation and elected officials representing cities, counties, rail districts and seaports along the South Central High-Speed Rail Corridor which have come together in a grassroots, collaborative effort to...

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A New Roof and Solar Energy All in One

Linda — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:13:16 +0000

Want Some Green Energy With That New Roof? In 2007, Dow Chemical received $20 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop “building integrated” solar arrays for the residential and commercial markets. Which lead Dow to form the Solar Solutions business unit and invest more than $100 million in solar solutions. This past October [...]

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The Glitter Of Solar Power

Linda — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:32:50 +0000

The Ability of Light to Produce Electrons, and Thus Electricity, Has Been Known For Over 100 Years. At the Albuquerque, New Mexico’s Sandia National Laboratories, scientists have developed tiny glitter-sized photovoltaic cells that could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used. The tiny solar particles, fabricated of crystalline silicon, hold the potential for a variety...

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The Cooling Effects Of The Solar Tree

Linda — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:39:11 +0000

Cooling The Parking Space With Sun Power Started in 2005 Envision Solar, headquartered in San Diego, California, has a vision of a sustainable future and an end to energy poverty. Their mission is to invent, develop and build Solar Integrated Infrastructure & Building Systems (SIIBS), through cost effective design, fabrication and construction methodologies. Envision Solar has [...]

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The Greening Of The Consumer’s Electronics

Linda — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:52:32 +0000

Supply and Demand – We Demand Green, They WILL Supply The 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) ran from January 7 – 10, in and around the Las Vegas Convention Center/Hilton and The Venetian. Each year, the International CES attracts the “who’s who” of the technology and related industries, including executives from the entertainment, wireless [...]

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Induction Lighting Is Green Brilliance

Linda — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:21:27 +0000

4 Times As Efficient and Lasts Over 20 Times Longer Sometimes called the electronic light bulb, the induction lamp offers high efficiency and a very long life because it operates without an electrode nor a filament. At the center of the lamp is the induction coil powered by an electronic unit at the base of the [...]

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