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To understand the power of conserving energy and using renewable energy instead of fossil fuels, it helps to know some of the basics about electricity. Knowing your kilowatts from your kilowatt hours can help you make smart choices that add up to big energy savings. So do you know your stuff? Take this short quiz and find out if you know what’s watt about electricity.
After an avalanche destroyed transmission lines, residents of the Alaskan capital mobilized to conserve energy.
Wikipedia defines Appropriate Technology as follows:
Appropriate technology (AT) is technology that is designed with special consideration to the environmental, ethical, cultural, social and economical aspects of the community it is intended for. With these goals in mind, AT typically requires fewer resources, is easier to maintain, has a lower overall cost and less of an [...]
There has been a high interest in the last few years in making your own fuel. This can range from converting diesels to run on used fryer oil, to making ethanol, and converting gasoline engines to run on it. We have also been converting gas engines to run on propane and methane. For information on [...]
At the Enviro Week show in St. Maarten, we met Bruno Therond and his water makers. He kept us hydrated all weekend with these awesome machines:
The Air/Water Generator (AWG) Technology condenses moisture in the air “water from the atmosphere” and purify it into a superior grade of purified, potable water. While the principle & technology [...]