Sometimes A Video Is Worth A Thousand Forced Green Words

With the post “The Green Rebirth Of An Old Naval Air Station” , it is no secret that Forced Green is always impressed with the goings on at NASA Ames Research Center. And it is also no secret that one of Forced Green’s favorite innovative subject’s is Unimodal’s amazing SkyTran .

This past January, Plum TV’s Masters Of Innovation series with host Jim Brasher presented an episode called “Space Age Green”. This episode covers how the cutting-edge technology designed for space travel at NASA Ames Research Center is being re-purposed to make life on this planet a whole lot greener. From carbon net-zero office buildings to more efficient air travel, SkyTran’s Jetson-like pods for commuters and mushroom’s that clean up oil spills. Proving that of all the corporations and government entities talking the green talk, NASA is actually walking the green walk with a plethora of environment-friendly game-changers.

NASA – Masters Of Innovation ….as the green future unfolds.

A Burst Of Positrons Emerged From An African Thunderstorm – Earth Created Antimatter – And Possibly An Avenue To Future Clean Energy

Clouds of antimatter have been observed in our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and antimatter is created in the Sun’s solar flares but with the exception of particle accelerators, the phenomenon has never before been seen on Earth – Until Now -

Unknown until the launch of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray space telescope on June 11, 2008, designed to monitor gamma rays, (the highest energy form of light), from its orbit 350 miles above the Earth. Fermi was above Egypt on Dec. 14, 2009, when a thunderstorm was raging in Zambia, some 2,800 miles to the south. The distant storm was below Fermi’s horizon, so any gamma rays it produced could not have been detected. Even though Fermi was out of “the line of sight” of the storm, (more…)

The Future Of Green Transportation Looks Extremely Fun

A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft, NASA’s experimental Puffin is a single-passenger/pilot, personal aircraft designed by NASA aerospace engineer Mark Moore and his colleagues at NASA, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Georgia Institute of Technology, the National Institute of Aerospace, and M-DOT Aerospace. (more…)

New Concept Could Harness the Power of Ocean Waves

NASA researchers who developed a new way to power robotic underwater vehicles believe a spin-off technology could help convert ocean energy into electrical energy on a much larger scale. The researchers hope that clean, renewable energy produced from the motion of the ocean and rivers could potentially meet an important part of the world’s demand for electricity.

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NASA‘s Orbiting Carbon Observatory satellite aboard a Taurus XL launch vehicle, failed to reach orbit after its 4:55 a.m. EST liftoff Feb. 24 from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base. As many of you know I spent many years of my career at NASA, and once NASA, always NASA, so I have seen my share of heartbreaking, tragic, disasters. In NASA terms, this launch failure is known as a ‘setback’. And that’s all it is. Or as my 15 year old nephew would say, “Ah Man, that really sucks”.

Preliminary indications are that the fairing on the Taurus XL failed to separate. Resulting in the spacecraft not having enough lift to reach orbit and likely landed in the ocean near Antarctica. The fairing is a clamshell structure that encapsulates the satellite, which shields the spacecraft during launch and atmospheric ascent. A Mishap Investigation Board is to determine the cause of the launch failure. (more…)

The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), is NASA’s first spacecraft dedicated to making space-based observations of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the principal human-produced driver of climate change. This new Earth science mission will have the accuracy, resolution and coverage needed to provide the first complete picture of the geographic distribution and seasonal variations of both human and natural sources of  carbon dioxide emissions and the places where they are being absorbed (sinks), at regional scales, mapping the globe once every 16 days. (more…)

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