A Labor-Reducing, Time-Saving, Amazing Machine Gives Rebirth To A Sustainable, Beautiful Blast From The Past
Henk van Kuijk, owner of Vanku Machinebouw (machine construction), from Brabantine Gilze-Rijen, the Netherlands, has developed an amazing machine called Tiger-Stone. An electric powered, gravity employing ballasting machine crawling along a sand base accurately laying sustainable brick/paver roads at an astounding 400 square meters (1,312 sq. ft.), a day. The width span can be adjusted up to 6 meters (19.68 feet) wide.
Brick roads have been road/street building material for centuries and pavers of one sort or another have been building roads for around 2,000 years or so. Brick/paver roads had fallen out of favor because they were so back-breaking labor and time intensive. But since the dawn of the green building movement and Tiger-Stone – they’re baaaacck! Bricks and pavers are easy to manufacture, reuse (a biggie), last an extremely long time, virtually maintenance free, and they are easily replaced in case of damage. They absorb rainwater between their seams helping renew aquifers and reducing storm water runoff. They can take intense heat, rain, snow, and freezing without cracking and the damage that leds to the potholes we’ve all come to know and loathe.
A mini-loader dumps bricks or stones into a hopper where up to three workers feed paving stones or bricks onto an angled plane, as the electrically powered Tiger-Stone travels in reverse. This allows (with the help of gravity) the angled plane to roll out a perfectly aligned, curb to curb, beautiful, sustainable, instant road.
A Big WOW! For Earth From The Little Island Of Japan
Akinori Ito has invented a machine called Blest, which converts plastic back into oil! Yes, really.
Looking eerily like the DeLorean’s flux capacitor in the Back To The Future movies, Ito’s machine is produced in various sizes, for both industrial and home uses. It can easily transform a kilogram of plastic waste into a liter of oil, using about 1 kilowatt of electricity but without emitting CO2 in the process. The machine uses a temperature controlling electric heater instead of flames, processing anything from polyethylene or polystyrene to polypropylene (numbers 2-4).
1 kg of plastic produces one liter of oil. This takes about 1 kilowatt of electricity, which costs 20 cents. 1 liter diesel oil costs $1.50 NOW, this is what I call recycling!
Although the company still mainly produces larger, industrial-use machines, people from around the world are anxious to know if and where they can purchase a machine. So, here you go – Blest- click on the english catalogue to get you answers direct from the horse’s mouth.
A wonderful invention to sustainably utilize the huge waste problem of the wonderful invention of plastic. It’s looking better and better ….
Producing Green Energy From A Variety Of Waste And Knocking Down Global Warming At The Same Time – Priceless !
Echo Energy Group, based out of South Carolina, is driven towards the total realization of the Waste To Energy (WTE) program. In its pursuit to serve industries and communities, Echo Energy provides a solution to trash reduction and resources optimization. Echo Energy Group has introduced an outstanding innovation in waste disposal: gasification. Echo Energy’s gasification technology was developed by NASA in the early 1980s and has been successfully tried and tested by the Department of Energy. This breakthrough in waste management (more…)
Dear Germany, When You Get To The Green Future, Please Throw The Rest Of Us A Rope!
Hailing from Freiburg, Germany, Rolf Disch is a renowned architect that has put his little city front and center on the eco-map. Literally transforming Freiburg into Germany’s eco-capital where about 35% of residents don’t own a car and new homes routinely incorporate photovoltaic panels. And now, a popular destination for tourist world-wide seeking the reality of sustainable architecture and the inspiration for better eco-friendly housing options for their future. (more…)
Update On Forced Green’s Post ‘Texas At A Green Crossroads’ – The Earth Won!
Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit to block the EPA from demanding that the state begin to comply with the clean air act, met with defeat on June 30th when the EPA announced final disapproval of the flexible permit program that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ – all Perry appointees), had submitted for inclusion in its clean-air implementation plan. EPA has determined that this program does not meet several national Clean Air Act requirements that help to assure the protection of health and the environment.
NASA Throws Down Green Flight Gauntlet – MIT Picks It Up
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team, in what could set the stage for a fundamental shift in commercial aviation, has designed a green airplane. Estimated to use 70% less fuel and produce 75% less emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), than current planes while producing quieter subsonic commercial aircraft. NASA also wanted an aircraft that could take off from shorter runways. (more…)
Reducing Your Carbon Footprint And Your Energy Costs Are No Longer Mutually Exclusive
On February 21st 60 Minutes aired a segment called ‘The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?’ Which did alot to fuel anticipation leading up to the press conference on February 24th. Especially since the company, Bloom Energy has been unusually secretive.
At the Wednesday morning event hosted by eBay at its Sunnyvale, California headquarters, and attended by vips such as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Secretary of State Colin Powell (a board member for the maker), Bloom Energy founder K.R Sridhar unveiled from beneath a black covering – a plexiglass box of sand. (more…)
Henk van Kuijk, owner of Vanku Machinebouw (machine construction), from Brabantine Gilze-Rijen, the Netherlands, has developed an amazing machine called Tiger-Stone. An electric powered, gravity employing ballasting machine crawling along a sand base accurately laying sustainable brick/paver roads at an astounding 400 square meters (1,312 sq. ft.), a day. The width span can be adjusted up to 6 meters (19.68 feet) wide.
Echo Energy Group, based out of South Carolina, is driven towards the total realization of the Waste To Energy (WTE) program. In its pursuit to serve industries and communities, Echo Energy provides a solution to trash reduction and resources optimization. Echo Energy Group has introduced an outstanding innovation in waste disposal: gasification. Echo Energy’s gasification technology was developed by NASA in the early 1980s and has been successfully tried and tested by the Department of Energy. This breakthrough in waste management 
Hailing from Freiburg, Germany, Rolf Disch is a renowned architect that has put his little city front and center on the eco-map. Literally transforming Freiburg into Germany’s eco-capital where about 35% of residents don’t own a car and new homes routinely incorporate photovoltaic panels. And now, a popular destination for tourist world-wide seeking the reality of sustainable architecture and the inspiration for better eco-friendly housing options for their future. 
Gov. Rick Perry’s lawsuit to block the EPA from demanding that the state begin to comply with the clean air act, met with defeat on June 30th when the EPA announced final disapproval of the flexible permit program that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ – all Perry appointees), had submitted for inclusion in its clean-air implementation plan. EPA has determined that this program does not meet several national Clean Air Act requirements that help to assure the protection of health and the environment.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team, in what could set the stage for a fundamental shift in commercial aviation, has designed a green airplane. Estimated to use 70% less fuel and produce 75% less emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), than current planes while producing quieter subsonic commercial aircraft. NASA also wanted an aircraft that could take off from shorter runways. 
On February 21st 60 Minutes aired a segment called ‘The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough?’ Which did alot to fuel anticipation leading up to the press conference on February 24th. Especially since the company, Bloom Energy has been unusually secretive.
