Keetsa Mattress Store - Keetsa! Blog - Eco-Friendly and Green News » Weather http://keetsa.com/blog Keetsa! Blog is about eco-friendly and green stuff. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Cut Price Sunforce Wind Generator http://keetsa.com/blog/home-and-garden/cut-price-sunforce-wind-generator/ http://keetsa.com/blog/home-and-garden/cut-price-sunforce-wind-generator/#comments Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:00:50 +0000 David Allen http://keetsa.com/blog/?p=12122 This is a great opportunity to get a roof top wind generator at a great price; it will assist in the running of all the electrical appliances in the home. What makes this device interesting is that it only has two moving parts and has been designed to operate in a smooth and quiet manner.

 

 

Features:

Volts: 12, Watts: 400 at 28 MPH

Blade Material: Carbon fibre composite

Speed (MPH): 110

Blade Diameter (in.): 46

Material: Lightweight cast aluminium body

Dimensions L x W x H (in.): 24 x 15 x 9

Overspeed/Overcrank Shutdown: Electronic torque control

 

Priced at $499 (List Price $799)

 

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“I had been looking at cisterns and rainwater systems for several years – the drought just pushed up the timetable,” he said.

Rain barrels were common a century ago, says John Harrod, backyard habitat coordinator for the Delaware Nature Society.

“You think about your homesteaders and your people living in cities before you had municipal water,” he says. “Back in the day, every little town out West probably had a rain barrel connected to each house or gutter.”

(Source) Citizen Times

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Protect your skin and that of your loved ones, by putting on some eco friendly and green sunscreen. Many brands exist, one of the top brands is listed below.

Which is best?

According to the annual green issue of Elle magazine, the best GREEN sunscreen is Aveeno Continuous Protection Sunblock Lotion. This sunscreen contains all natural soy, which shields the suns powerful rays, and evens out skin tone. Plus vitamins A, C, and E, it is water-proof, and oil-free. This one comes in at an SPF 55.

Available at major pharmacies, and/or many top cosmetic counters. Price: About $9.99

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solar powered thermometer

But with this solar powered thermometer you should never get caught out again, and this takes it power from the sun then there are no power issues either.

No details on price etc yet.

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This is the “Sound from Wind” is sound system for the bike which is powered by the wind, now clearly this is not the same as having a CD player as the music that you get is going sound a little like a wind chime.

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However the images show the woman using a laptop, I am not quite sure that a laptop can be charged up by using this table, we need a closer look at the specs in order to find that one out, and smaller electrical items are ok though.

Physical Dimensions:

Table Top (including solar panels):

1097mm W x 762mm L X 16mm D

Table Shell (including legs):

1097mm W x 762mm L x 460mm D

Device Storage Drawer:

365mm W x 533.5mm L x 117mm D

Castors: 101.6mm diameter, lockable with 360 degrees rotation

Technology that lets you:

Access Solo system info

Charge your mobile phone

Plug in your portable audio system

Power up your MP3 player

Materials and Components:

Table Top: Tempered glass panels sandwiching a clear resin sealing silicon solar cells

Table Shell and Device Storage Drawer: Formed stainless steel with brushed finish

Table Legs: Polished stainless steel rod

Electronic Components: LCD monitor, Maximum Power Point Tracker, Charge Controller, Bluetooth transmitter and a rechargeable battery array

Unfortunately there is no information on prices etc, so we can assume that it is not going to be cheap!

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However collecting it in a useful and practical way is another matter, this is where the water hog comes in, and these are a practical and safe way of collecting your rainwater.

Each Waterhog has a capacity of 183 Litres. The external dimensions of the Waterhogs are 1800mm x 500mm x 220mm.

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Weird Weather

If you are experiencing abnormal weather and getting that feeling of like living in an oven waiting to be roasted, chances are you will immediately lean towards global warming as the probable cause. Actually you are right and with studies performed as the one done by American Geophysical Union.

Apparently weather conditions are just getting worse and even if we are doing our own small initiatives, it is pretty obvious that we need more practices to address this growing problem that has been irritating and making our lives inconvenient.

Well, we only have ourselves to blame and hopefully ignorant people will start feeling the heat and join the global warming preventive measures to help get our world back on track.

The persistent and dramatic decline in the snowpack of many mountains in the West is caused primarily by human-induced global warming and is not the result of natural variability in weather patterns, researchers reported yesterday.

Using data collected over the past 50 years, the scientists confirmed that the mountains are getting more rain and less snow, that the snowpack is breaking up faster and that more rivers are running dry by summer.

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This will would produce one giga watt of for around 1.5 euros an hour, if we were to compare this with other methods of power production, then the best type of power production which will cost around 43 euros per hour.

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