RichC | November 19, 2021
How about mining Bitcoin and heating your house (room) with the excess energy/heat? For small room portable heating and cryptocurrency mining this looks interesting (although personally I’d rather install solar panels and sell electric power to the grid), check out the Heatbit website.
Category: Business, Computer, Energy, Environment, Financial, Technology, Video |
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Tags: bitcoin, crypto, cryptocurrency, electricity, heatbit, heating, mining, utilities, youtube
RichC | February 25, 2021
As an advocate of renewable energy, be it biofuels, hydro, solar, wind, etc for decades, I don’t understand why Americans can’t come together on a united “all inclusive” energy plan? I know a few anti-solar/wind energy types, but usually they are just pushing back against the extremist wanting to do away with all fossil fuels […]
Category: Energy, Environment, Video |
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Tags: biden, biofuels, electricity, energy, fossil fuel, green new deal, grid, keystone, polution, renewable, solar, storms, texas, wind power
RichC | March 25, 2020
It may not come from space in the form of meteorites as mentioned in the story below, but I think the biggest advancement in this decade will be in superconductivity. Physicists have made fantastic advancements in reducing electrical resistance ever since Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes experimented with ferromagnetism in 1911, but getting superconductivity state […]
Category: Science, Space |
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Tags: electricity, electronics, gizmodo, invention, meteorite, prediction, science, superconductivity
RichC | December 18, 2019
Although my boating life isn’t quite this bad (thanks for the photo Fatty Goodlander), it is frustrating to be dealing with what I thought was an already “fixed” problems aboard Encore. Besides not using the boat often enough, the re-fixing of problems a second time is frustrating, time consuming and costly. Back in 2013 (has […]
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Tags: 12v, batteries, battery, bimini, boating, deep cycle, diehard, electricity, encore, marine, patch, power, reinforce, repair, sailing
RichC | June 8, 2019
We are big proponents of using ceiling fans and “I” have always assumed the electricity cost in running them was minimal compared to running air conditioning and for the most part just leave them on all the time in the summer. BUT … that’s not really the best idea according to an energy saving newsletter. […]
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Tags: air conditioning, ani gif, anigif, bills, ceiling fan, cooling, electricity, energy, fans, gif, photo, savings
RichC | May 12, 2014
I’ve about had it with replacing the TWO small and expensive 6 volt batteries that are packed into my APS uninterruptable power supply (UPS). Seems like I’ve purchase these same batteries too many times before for a couple of different devices and just like toner for inkjet printers, I wonder if it wouldn’t just be […]
Category: Computer |
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Tags: back up, electricity, power, surge