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Topic: Minimal Electric Use Plan (Personal)? |
oxj
Replies: 20
Views: 621
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 5:40 am Subject: Re: Minimal Electric Use Plan (Personal)? |
My favorite new device is the Genie III lamp. Lehman's has them. They cost a bit, are fragile, and use kerosene.
Two hours of operation last night maybe used a 1/4 cup or about 3˘, and it was b ... |
Topic: CNN reports gas shortages in South East USA! |
oxj
Replies: 75
Views: 5113
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:13 am Subject: Re: YELLING, CRYING, FREAKING OUT AT EMPTY PUMPS IN ATLANTA |
Back in the 1970's some people set others on fire at the gasoline pumps. Well, I suppose part of this had to do with people smoking at gas stations.
I understand that this is why NJ and OR don't ... |
Topic: Lower your heating bill! |
oxj
Replies: 2
Views: 332
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:08 pm Subject: Re: Lower your heating bill! |
| Hai. Kotatsu wa kaiteki desu. Thank you for teaching the name of this device. I have used it in Japan and it was good. I do want one for my house but did not know its name. |
Topic: Lost link |
oxj
Replies: 0
Views: 218
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:57 pm Subject: Lost link |
| Some time ago, there was a link posted which went to a proposal for a new community in Illinois, fashioned after the Russian Mennonites. The post was sparse, so it seems impossible to find using the ... |
Topic: Trading in Russia suspended to halt slide. |
oxj
Replies: 17
Views: 925
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:02 am Subject: Re: Trading in Russia suspended to halt slide. |
| Yes, the struggle of the poor is uninteresting, for it is common. |
Topic: Is the world economy collapsing NOW? |
oxj
Replies: 488
Views: 38598
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 10:38 am Subject: Re: Will the world economy collapse Monday? |
| A most interesting thing could be seen on the Fox today. There was the "big board," as I believe it to be called, on the right side of the screen, and to the left were found various politicians in su ... |
Topic: Peak Oil Cartoon! |
oxj
Replies: 2
Views: 502
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 12:23 pm Subject: Re: Peak Oil Cartoon! |
| Maximally groovy, particularly the music. |
Topic: soil cube maker |
oxj
Replies: 6
Views: 440
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:53 am Subject: Re: soil cube maker |
| I had a difficult time trying to start seed in soil which I had gotten from my garden, which packs well but is a kind of sandy loam. Thinking about this a bit, I believe I should have mixed some peat ... |
Topic: The Great Recycling Swindle |
oxj
Replies: 14
Views: 787
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:13 am Subject: Re: The Great Recycling Swindle |
| In our county, it is annually reported how much money is made from recycling, along with a deduction of how much is paid for landfill service for that which are not recycled. The difference is then p ... |
Topic: Getting spanish onion to remake bulbs |
oxj
Replies: 13
Views: 733
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:00 am Subject: Re: Getting spanish onion to rmake bulbs |
Bulbs are produced from seed when grown in a constricted environment. So, if you plant too many seeds without thinning them, you'll get bulbs.
Did you collect the seeds after they flowered? |
Topic: Deer destroyed my Asian pear trees last night |
oxj
Replies: 37
Views: 1844
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 12:13 pm Subject: Re: Deer destroyed my Asian pear trees last night |
| My suggestion is to not buy dwarf trees or trees on M111 stock. Get trees on, for example, sturdy Antanovka stock which will produce healthy, non-starved trees. Such trees are available from greenm ... |
Topic: High petroleum prices slow country road maintenance |
oxj
Replies: 6
Views: 526
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Forum: Americas Discussion Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:06 am Subject: Re: High petroleum prices slow country road maintenance |
| Parhaps it is good that asphalt use is decreasing, for it contains and exudes benzo-[a]-pyrene, a powerful carcinogen. Although [url=http://www.epa.gov/oppt/pbt/pubs/benzo.htm] this web page by the E ... |
Topic: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
oxj
Replies: 105
Views: 5070
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:52 am Subject: Re: Is the world actually Cooling not warming? |
| This is a critique of global warming predictions which shows that tropospheric temperatures correlate well with ocean surface temperatures but do not correlate, within the last decade, with carbon dio ... |
Topic: The Public Mass Transit Thread (merged) |
oxj
Replies: 233
Views: 5296
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Forum: Conservation & Efficiency Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 1:31 pm Subject: Re: Is there a stigma to mass transit in most of America? |
Uvi! Of course Amtrak has classes, they're called "coach" and "business" on some routes, "coach," "econo sleeper," and "bedroom" on other routes.
Buying an "econo sleeper" used to be worth i ... |
Topic: Is this weed edible? |
oxj
Replies: 32
Views: 2657
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:35 pm Subject: Re: Is this weed edible? |
| If you recall last year's bird excrement staining your lawn chairs, you can be sure the mighty pokeweed is around. |
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