Recycled timber might just be the best thing for your latest project, it’s good for your home adding a little traditional style and history, it’s good for the environment . . . (no trees were harmed during the building of this closet) . . . and it can also be good for the pocket. Talk about [...]

A nickel is worth five cents, or 5 pennies. You can count nickels by counting by fives. A nickel is fairly easy to identify because of its thickness, and the dime because of its size. The penny is the only coin of usual thickness with a smooth edge. A nickel is a coin in currency, [...]

Cardboard is also known as ‘corrugated paper’ and it originated in China during the 15th century. It wasn’t until several hundred years later that the first commercial cardboard box was created in England in 1817. Cardboard is collected separately for purposes of recycling. Cardboard is an inexpensive material: it holds its shape and is also [...]

A stove is just an inefficient electrical circuit that releases its energy in the form of heat. Stoves are frequently enameled in a variety of colors and some are covered with marble or stone. Steel-plate stoves are generally made of 3/16- to 1/4-inch thick plates cut and stamped to shape. Stoves are then dismantled. The [...]

Everywhere, the shininess of new plastic. But shrinkwrap is not acceptable as the only packaging method for hardback books thicker than 1 inch or heavier than 1 pound. Shrinkwrap is now available in three colors to suit the climate. Blue absorbs heat, which allows ice and snow to slide off of it. Shrinkwrap is the [...]

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How To Hook A 7 Year Old Up To A DC Power Inverter As much fun as that sounds like, it is probably against some random child labor laws to hook a 7 year old to a DC power inverter. But all of that energy comes from somewhere, and it has to go somewhere, or [...]

A ‘D’OH Moment Since we already know the environmental problems 30 billion empty plastic bottles a year inflict on our landfill system, and we already realize that plastic bottled water is a waste of resources, landfill space, and water, let’s make a comparison between bottled water and tap water to clarify matters. Bottled water IS [...]

How We Gonna Feed All Of These People? Domino’s? Well, that one sentence ( the one about the pizza delivery, not the dead children’s pet, which was just a catchy title to get you to read this part) takes us to one of our new burgeoning problems, one that has the ultimate power of limiting [...]

When Starving Children Meet Recreational Fishermen, The Children Lose? Oceanic fish farming is a 21st Century way of providing renewable protein for our growing population. As farmland gets maxed out beyond it’s practical use, the next best idea is to turn to the sea to supplement our species growing need for protein. Since most current [...]