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I'd rather have a horizon full of wind tunbines any day than the old coal fired power plant we have here.

DK

If you mix a good bit of wood ashes in with your soil, it'll bring the pH up.

DK

This is an old Indian way of preserving butter:

http://www.indiacurry.com/dairy/d005ghee.htm

DK

Hello Wildfire:

I'd recommend you NOT install central heat and air. Insulate the hell out of the house, seal all the cracks, and basically get the house to require as little heating and cooling as ...

I drive very little, perhaps 200 miles/year in a car that gets 40 mpg. So the average age of the fuel in my tank is over a year. It runs fine. Same with the lawn mower - the gas in it's tank was fr ...

I'd be really skeptical of an organic polymer retaining its transmissivity as long as glass does. But since there is the tradeoff of increased efficiency, perhaps it would be worthwhile.

The polym ...

I think if people start to get more exercise (bicycling, walking, etc.) that life expectancy may improve for those people, even if they don't lose a lot of weight right away.

We waste a lot of food ...

You can always wire two bulbs in series in a pinch.

Dk

Would that work on a 24v system?

Yes - 2 12 v bulbs in series require 24 V.

Here in Missouri we get an average of 4-5 hours/day o ...

The problem with a terawatt of PV panels is that right now, we are doing well to make 10 GW of panels every year. At this rate, we'll have a TW in 100 years, at which time oil will be a rarity, used ...

I live right down the road from 4 junk yards with hundreds of cars, they all run off 12v systems, so spare/replacement lights would be easier to get for a 12v system.

You can always wire two bu ...

It just keeps raining here. It is likely that many farmers in MO and IL/IN will not be able to plant. It's also been cold, and things that are planted are not growing as fast as they should.

At l ...

The woman who orchestrated our recent trip to China (and who lived in China herself until just a few years ago) swears that silk is the best fabric for beating the heat. She told me it stands up to h ...

The woman who orchestrated our recent trip to China (and who lived in China herself until just a few years ago) swears that silk is the best fabric for beating the heat. She told me it stands up to h ...

Confiscating $100 billion in oil profits might buy 5 or 6 10 GW wind farms (which only produce, on the average, 15 GW total). That's 1.5 % of the generating capacity of the US. This would make ...

I'm a British guy, never been to America or anything but here is what i learned from the mass media.

"George Bush hates black people"

"Mass looting and firefights broke out"

"Zombie hordes an ...