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61Save on your electricity bill
Did you know that most if not all the electrical gadgets in your home still use up power even when they appear to be turned off. These are known as phantom loads. The U.S. D.O.E. gives a figure of 75% of all...
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57A BANKRUPT COUNTRY coming soon to your neighborhood, at a yearly cost of USD 700 billion and rising.
The mere mention of losing our way of life will most likely arouse mixed feelings, especially if we say that this could happen in the next ten years at the most. If we choose to accept the opinion of Texas...
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77Wind power: is it the answer to soaring energy costs?
Imagine this; you've just climbed 200 feet up a vertical steel ladder inside what looks like a tunnel, almost like it was part of the Starship Enterprise. After finding yourself in a room as big as a house,...
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68Protect yourself with these tire safety tips
We're all familiar with the old saying, "You can't judge a book by its cover." Well, the same goes for tires, looks can be deceiving. The inner layers will slowly deteriorate over time even when the tire sits...
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69It's easy being green when you're an electric car
1903 Studebaker electric car advertisement.The increasing awareness of environmental issues coupled with soaring gas prices have caused many engineers and marketers to turn their attention back through the...
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64Coconut oil, the forgotten marvel.
I remember my first encounter years ago with coconuts when I was in Fiji. The stately palm trees often shown on postcards are probably coconut palms and the very first lesson I learned was to never sit under one. When fully ripe the nuts would drop...
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58How to win the sugar game without turning sour
First off, let us establish a boundary for our discussion. This hub has nothing to do with the natural sugars that are found in vegetables and fruits and which are far superior to anything that man can cook...
1 comment75BEWARE OF BOGUS HEADLINES, "Burn water in your car" etc. Ad infinitum, Ad Nauseam.
You've seen dozens of these headlines which are no doubt encouraged by the latest craze being hyped all over the internet. Because there seems to be a kind of desperation among the driving public, the internet is rife with all kinds of hucksters,...
3 comments57How free are Internet "free" offers?
Example: PC cleaners are a very good thing, but they vary in quality all the way from 100% effective to outright scams. Like anything else available in the hugely massive information pile called Internet,...
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59It's O.K. for a man to cry over the coming loss of a dear friend
I want to prepare you ahead of time: I cried buckets while writing this. That's all I can say for now. This is one story among many, a story about man's best friend, a sweet charming little mixed-breed...
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