Forced Green Turns 2 – We Have So Far To Go, Yet We Have Come So Far

There’s a gruesome little saying that goes – if you put a frog in boiling water it will jump out, but if you put it in cold water and slowly heat it until the water boils, the frog will stay there and die. Ergo, if slow and gradual, change goes on for the most part, unnoticed. This is so often used as an analogy to caution for bad changes. But it also serves to make us pause and take time to realize the good changes. (more…)

Solar Roadways Named A Finalists Of 2010 EE Times Ace Award

On January 30th Forced Green posted an article called “Riding The Solar Roadway To A Green Future“,

… well since then Solar Roadways, the little innovators that could from Sagle, Idaho has been named a finalist for the “Most Promising Renewable Energy Award” by the prestigious 2010 EE Times ACE Awards. AND they have completed the first prototype Solar Road Panel with funding from a U.S. Department of Transportation Phase I SBIR contract. Phase II involves a commercialization plan to begin the manufacturing process. (more…)