Smart Water

A standalone desalinator needs 17 gallons of diesel fuel and 66.5 kilowatts of
electricity to make 1,000 gallons of freshwater, but now, the Solar Cube, (made
by Spectra Watermakers in California), churns out 1,500 gallons of drinking water
on just 22 kilowatts of its own solar and wind power. The innovation is a pump
that triples efficiency by recapturing hydraulic pressure during the filtering
process. Solar Cubes are now bringing freshwater to remote regions and places
short on infrastructure and electricity without paying the CO2 price – way cool. (more…)

Mariah Power, the manufacturer of the Windspire®, a residential and commercial wind power appliance, was recognized in “Best of What’s New” in the green tech category by Popular Science in its December 2008 issue.

Windspire turbine

The Windspire is a 30-foot tall, propeller-free, vertical-axis wind turbine designed for harnessing wind power in urban, suburban and rural locations for both residential and commercial use. Each year, Popular Science reviews thousands of new products and innovations and chooses the top 100 winners across 11 categories for inclusion in its annual “Best of What’s New” issue, the best-read issue of the year. To win, a product or technology must represent a significant step forward in its category.

This award comes on the heels of the company’s announcement of its first volume manufacturing facility in Michigan that will be up and running next year, and the first multi-unit commercial installation of six Windspires at Devon Bank the first “green bank” in the Chicago, Illinois area. (more…)

What is the purpose of termites?…

Those incredibly destructive little creatures have the potential to benefit
humans in the production of biofuels. Or more precisely, the bacteria in
their stomachs. Termites process the wood they ingest in a series of stomachs,
each with a distinct set of bacteria.  Those bugs within bugs release enzymes
that break down cellulose, the sugar chains in wood, into acetate, a fatty
acid that provides the termite’s energy. Scientists with the Joint Genome
Institute at the U.S. Department of Energy, hope to develop a process to
harness the power of these bacteria on an industrial scale to break cellulose
down into ethanol and provide biofuel without using food crops as a source. (more…)

You’ve probably experienced the bouncing sensation when a car passes, as you
walk in a multistoried parking structure. Or the phenomenon of the floor
vibrating beneath your feet on the upper levels of a crowded mall during the
holidays. A mini earthquake from thousands of feet traversing the walkways.
Structures are designed to accommodate this motion, which structural engineers
call “dynamic load”. (more…)

Forced Green is going to harness the wind.  How?  Vertical Wind Power.

Vertical Wind Power will not harm birds, bees, etc, as horizontal wind generators have a tendency to do.

Living off retirement savings (with penalties!),it is not economically feasible to fund this project without support. This project’s goal is to build a working vertical wind power system, as economically as possible, that will noticeably offset the enormous cost of being dependant on the grid. Once accomplished it is the project’s intent to provide this service; labor, materials, et al, free if possible, but realistically has cheap as your support would allow, to those who need it the most – senior citizens. Those who live on fixed incomes, that have to make a decision between buying food, medicine or paying their electric bill.

Please donate!  Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.

As the project goes forward, updates will be provided that includes: technical data, how to’s, do’s and don’ts, and cost data.

Another way to assist is to click on the advertising.  Many of them I have written about, of those, I have either researched the product or have actually purchased. I do not advertise on items that have no value to you, they are all about going green. So,  help your favorite bloggers out by buying from a blog.

Forced Green works very hard to provide the latest and greatest information concerning going green in a variety of fields. Forced Green depends on your donations in it’s continuing effort in providing you with what can be done today along with the green technologies that tomorrow is bringing. So, to those who have donated, and those who continue to donate, from the bottom of my heart, I thank you.

By using the technological equivalent of the power of lightning, a company called
Plasco, has a goal to turn our garbage problem into a profitable energy solution.

Plasmagasification is the process of turning waste into electricity.  Plasma is
sometimes called the 4th state of matter. The first state is solid, add heat to a
solid and it becomes the second state, liquid.  Add heat to a liquid and it is (more…)

About 2 months ago, a storage tank in a tiny West Texas Refinery blew up.
Thank God, nobody was killed. It made the news, maybe only here in Texas.
By the next morning, everyone around here was jokingly taking bets on how
quick the big oil companies would use that as an excuse to jack the gas
prices up.

TWO DAYS! I am not yanking your chain here people! Within two days, the
national news was reporting the price of gas was going up because of that
very refinery incident.

I hate being patronized. Especially, with stupid lies.

“The Sheik of Mogley Dobley and the CEO of Got Rocks Oil, got run over
by a UFO today, so the price of gas is going up again. Suck it up,
you lowly masses, and take whatever we tell you because we got you by
the short hairs and you cannot do anything about it. Hardy har har!!!!”

The average price of gas is around $3.50/gallon now and half of the country’s
wages is $10.00 or under per hour. At that rate, most of the blue
collar workers cannot or soon will not be able to afford to go to work.
This SUCKS! But, guess what folks. It’s always darkest before the dawn.

They say that necessity is the mother of invention. No truer words were
ever spoken.

Because all through out history, you back people up against the wall until their
intellect, ingenuity, and common sense, comes out swinging. Good will always
come of it.

Who knows when, but sooner or later some bright young car mechanic is going to
pop up with a 50 cent pill that you drop in the gas tank, fill it up with tap
water and drive 500 miles. The only emission is clean water vapor. Well, maybe
you will have to change a belt or hose or fuse or something.

So what are you going to do then Exxon, Shell, BP, Mobil and OPEC?

I suppose I should thank you (Big Oil) for forcing us green. But I am not. Because
all of you could have had more compassion and concern for your planet and
its people 40 or 50 years ago. We could have been walking this green path together.
Just think where we would be now.

But, nooooo! Big Oil is too busy turning our blue sky smutty gray and wringing every
last penny out of our pockets!

Now hear this, Fat Cats! We WILL save our planet and we WILL figure out a way or
ways to release your crushing grip on our lives. And you WILL rue the day you
pee-peed on our post toasties!

I’ll stop ranting now….
just wanted let know…
why we’re….

FORCED GREEN
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