Sharing Green Ideas to Take Care Of and Enjoy Our Small World Better
I like to keep an eye out for great deals on stuff like solar panels, wind turbines and other green products.
Usually solar panels are running in the high 4 dollar and up per watt range for pricing. Sometimes they'll even get up there to over $7 a watt. So solar panels are not really cheap and it's a good idea to look for deals!
You can imagine my surprise when I was checking out some prices and stumbled across some solar panels that were running at UNDER $3 a watt! Read the full article »
I was reading an article on CNN.com the other day on Europe and their idea of creating a supergrid.
The supergrid addresses some very important concerns when dealing with renewable green energy sources. The usual concerns are: What happens when the sun doesn't shine? or What happens when the wind isn't blowing?
The concerns that people have need to be addressed, and they shouldn't be taken lightly. No sun to a solar array is about the same as having no coal to fire the generator. Read the full article »
I'm the kind of person who buys things way before I need them. I hold onto it until I need it because I know it's not going to go bad and when I want it then it'll be there when I do.
I was thinking about buying a solar panel here and a solar panel there and just holding onto them until I get around to finishing my house and I can actually put them to use. But I'm starting to think that It'd be a lot better if I hold off on this purchase in the hopes that the prices will go down a little bit in the time it takes me to be ready for them.
Solar panels are still really expensive, market price is about $5 a watt right now and this, to me, is a crazy price to have to pay to generate your own electricity from the sun. Read the full article »
Tea or hot chocolate just doesn't cut it for me, I need my java and I need a lot of it.
Since I drink so much coffee I realized that the heater on my coffee maker was almost constantly on and that I could probably do something about this power consumption.
I started looking into alternatives to my normal coffee maker - something a little more energy conscious. I found these thermal carafe coffee makers and they seemed to make a lot of sense. Read the full article »
Infinia seems to have developed one of the most innovative electricity producing products to appear in the Green Energy sector in a long time.
The solar energy system Infinia produces is based around the Stirling engine that was conceived almost 200 years ago by Robert Stirling,
Calling the Stirling engine an engine almost implies that there's some internal combustion happening, but a Stirling engine has nothing to do with burning fossil fuels. Stirling engines utilize the change in volume of a gas at different temperatures in a closed loop system to produce mechanical motion. Read the full article »
There are so many solar panel calculators on the internet that ask you all sorts of questions about your appliances and ask you to fill in confusing forms that we've decided to try and make it a little easier for everybody.
We're going to take the "How Much Electricity are You Currently Consuming" approach so that you can get an idea of what you'd need for solar panels to generate your current level of electrical usage. Read the full article »
I really like this video. This guy, who is totally new at beekeeping, braves the wrath of the honeybee and starts his first hive.
Bees are really important pollinators, we rely on them to pollinate some of our crops and move the bees around, hundreds of hives at a time, to pollinate many of our crops.
If you've ever thought about beekeeping you should watch this video. You'll see that anybody can do it. If you choose to start beekeeping you'll also get the reward of unprocessed, great tasting, natural honey as a bonus. Read the full article »
Wow !!! That is a good price...
Glad to hear you're taking the plunge and going the natural approach Roger. I too am trying to be 100% natural. I build my own hives and frames so I built modified Dadant type frames so...