DIY Windshield Shade Solar Oven
I have to admit that this is the easiest DIY Solar Oven that I’ve seen to date.
A simple, reflective windshield shade and some Velcro strips and you’re done! Set the cone shaped shade in a bucket (filled with stones so it doesn’t blow over), place a wire grate at the bottom [...]
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Solar Powered Vehicles sets World Distance Record
By The Canadian Press
Oct. 30, 2008
VICTORIA, B.C. - A Canadian man has set a new world distance record in a solar-powered vehicle that looks more like a flying saucer than an automobile.
Marcelo Da Luz arrived at Victoria’s mile zero marker Thursday to complete his 15,000 kilometre journey in his [...]
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Alternative Fuel Vehicles
While I consider the Plug-in Electric Vehicle (PiEV) to be the king of alternative fuel vehicles, there are several additional technologies in the design stage or with limited production runs.
For this article, I’m going to forget about both ethanol & bio-diesel. Both these fuels still produce too much pollution and greenhouse gas. Likewise, I [...]
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Extend Your Pool Season
The easiest way to extend your swimming pool season is to use a pool cover or blanket. An inexpensive pool cover can easily add a month at the beginning and end of the swimming season. For every 12 hours the pool cover is left on, the temperature of the water will rise [...]
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Happy “Green” Halloween
Halloween can still be black and orange, but without much effort, you can add a little “green”.
The first place to start is with the costumes. Rather than spending a whole lot of money on a commercially made costume that only gets worn once, try something different. Take a trip down to Goodwill - [...]
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DIY Solar Water Purifier
Solar water purifiers can be very simple, effective devices for making drinking water from saltwater, or brackish water, by using condensation within a solar still.
The basic concept:
Dirty, salty or brackish water is placed in a sealed container, in a dark pan, that is pointed towards the sun. The sun evaporates the water, which condenses [...]
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New Time-of-Use Electricity Prices in Ontario
Ontario is rapidly increasing the number of SMART meters rollout out to residential electricity consumers. These consumers will eventually be rolled over to Time-Of-Use billing, which charges different rates per kilowatt hour of electricity, based on the time of day it was consumed. These prices are adjusted every six months, [...]
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Environmental Issues also good for the Economy
As the stock market tanks and yet another bank closes, people have quickly switched from being concerned for the environment to be concerned with the economy. Yet they aren’t separate items: good environment practices will mean a booming economy.
Germany has created tens of thousands of jobs in the wind [...]
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