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 the first tidal turbine to generate energy on a commercial scale and has been rated (more…)

Hornet wind turbine blades verses hyperspin blades

Here is a video that will show that even in 6 mph winds, the blades will turn!

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Here is an interesting new concept.

The Honeywell Wind Turbine eliminates traditional wind turbine gear box, shaft and generators. The Honeywell Wind Turbine is a gearless, “free wheeling’’ turbine that generates power from the blade tips (where the speed lies) rather than through a complex slow center shaft. By practically eliminating mechanical resistance and drag, the Honeywell Wind Turbine creates significant power (2000 kWh/yr) operating in a greater range of wind speeds (2-45 mph) than traditional wind turbines. The highest output, lowest cost per kWh installed turbine ever made. So powerful, so simple.

The price is coming down along with getting all parts needed for a full installation. None of this one piece at a time routine. So, bottom line, this one has the biggest bang for your buck!

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Multi-Tasking Taken to a Whole New Green Level

Have you stood near a roadway and been buffeted by the gusts of wind from passing cars, or nearly knocked over by the force of wind from a big rig truck? That is energy gone to waste ….. until now. Mark Oberholzer, a professor of landscape architecture at Rice University in Houston, proposes installing small vertical-axis wind turbines (Darius turbines), inside the concrete highway dividers to generate power. Utilizing the wind energy created by passing traffic. (more…)

“The Future Is Now”

For those of you that do not get the Planet Green channel, let’s start with the narrative given at the start of the program by Leonardo DiCaprio:

On May 4, 2007 Greensburg Kansas was destroyed by EF-5 tornado. Left with nothing, this small farming community took an amazing leap of faith, they decided to build the greenest town in America. Eco-friendly homes and business’s began to rise out of the rubble, but the challenges have been enormous. Main Street is still a work in progress, civic buildings are just now being built and some of the townspeople continue to wait for new homes. Yet, the people of Greensburg remain undaunted, they are pushing forward everyday to accomplish their dream. (more…)

The Princess Elisabeth Station has been officially inaugurated in Antarctica on February 15th, 2009.

This station is the only polar base operating entirely on renewable energies. It has eight wind turbines from Proven Energy.

It marks a major change, as most stations rely on diesel generators – because no wind turbines, until now, were thought to be robust enough for such extreme conditions. The turbines will endure the most severe weather conditions on Earth.

They will be operating in average winds of 53 mph and winter gusts of over 200mph, while still providing 230V electricity for the stations heating, computers, lights and scientific instruments. The electricity generated is expected to be the highest output of any small wind power system in the world. (more…)

ORGANITECH, an Israeli company which has developed automated, self-contained, hydroponic systems for nurseries that can produce commercial quantities of clean crops. Planting, harvesting and packaging are performed entirely by intelligent robots, monitored by an advanced control center, eliminating the need for manpower. Plants are grown in plastic-foam (styro-foam) trays that float and rotated in nutrient rich water. In the closed, monitored environment there is no need for harmful insecticides and pesticides. Suitable for many types of leafy vegetables including numerous lettuce varieties and other leafy vegetables.

The brainchild of Dr. Dickson Despommier is a 21 storey skyscraper farms that could potentially be as productive as 588 acres of land and grow up to 12 million lettuces a year. (See Forced Green post 9/25/2008 – An Idea I really Like).With the world’s population expected to increase to 3 billion by 2050 and almost 80% of farming land in use, the idea has never been more relevant.

But what if instead of waiting until 2050 (more…)