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- Update on Chinese wallboard with a side order of sulphur
- buy more China products!Hey China rocks, I love 'made in China'!!!Bring it home to China!BUY CHINA productsYou will help devalue the dollar even more,it is ranked 48 in the world.BUY C H I N A productsYou will help devalue the dollar even more,it is ranked 48 in the world.Good griefThe...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
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- U.S. willing to let go of Icann
- Obama is selling us outonly a peace monger like Obama could cede US sovereignty to UN.It's time to elect a real American in 2012!Huge MistakeThis is a very bad idea. Whenever we cede control to the 'world,' the worlds tin horn disctators make a mess of it.This should have...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-29
- Foundation of our green future
- I recently got to speak with Steve Vassallo, an exec at Foundation Capital. They're an investment firm firmly in the greentech camp. They've been in the VC business for 14 years. They don't just talk the talk, Foundation's putting their money where the matter is. The firm's...
- Blog posts 2009-08-10
- Chinese drywall: more than you paid for?
- Chinese drywall: more than you paid for?Earth to EPADuh, gypsum *is* calcium sulfate so of course it should be entirely sulfur compounds!If the material in question is out gassing impurities say what the contaminant actually is could be useful, but a generic "sulfur compounds" is asinine scare mongering. How about...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Chinese drywall: more than you paid for?
- I blogged earlier about problems blamed on impurities in Chinese-made plaster board. Tests by the Environmental Protection Agency test results released today confirm those suspicions. Sulphur compounds are there. Also strontium and other unwanted impurities. The ironies here are immense. In political theory...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Hellacious wallboard--take 2
- The nasty wallboard emitting H2S (hydrogen sulphide, a gas) is apparently spread around North America. The Canadians are now complaining about it. I blogged about this latest Chinese import to raise health questions. The stuff was apparently imported from 2001 to 2007. One estimate:...
- Blog posts 2009-03-22
- Drywall Calculator 1.1 (Mobile)
- This is an iPhone/iPod Touch application that assists you in figuring out square footage of a room. Whether you want to calculate just the walls, ceiling or a slope triangle, or any combination of the previous you would like to figure. After you input any dimensions you have, total square...
- Software downloads 2009-03-03
- San Quentin prison: IT failure is life or death
- San Quentin prison, which holds California's most dangerous criminals, is a technology time capsule: Typewriters and dot-matrix printers are the norm. And this time warp is untenable because it's killing prisoners who get lost in a health care paper shuffle. The solution: An overhaul of the prison's information system where...
- Blog posts 2008-04-16
- Air pollution finds a home
- Carbon Sciences says it has come up with a relatively efficient way to turn carbon dioxide from smokestacks into chalk, which can then be used to make drywall or other products. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos checks out the company's mobile prototype with CEO Derek McLeish.
- Videos 2008-02-19
- Green-walling with patented new tech
- I had a serious talk with the chief of Serious Materials. And the company promises some serious energy savings with their new products. But in my talk with CEO Kevin Surace I hit a green wall on one topic: how do they make this stuff? ...
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- Inside the green designer home
- Inside the green designer homeNice but...straw bale homes are cheaper per square foot and have a better thermal efficiency. Combine the two concepts and then you will have a green home that is affordable and sustainable. ]:)Neat, but pricing is waaay offThe average square footage price for CA is around...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-14
- The greening of basic building materials
- This blog’s for the handymen of the world, like my husband. Got a bit of education recently about the environmental/climate impact associated with manufacturing certain building materials, such as drywall and sheet rock. Apparently, the processes behind creating the materials that go into construction projects and renovations...
- Blog posts 2007-11-23
- Construction and Distribution Divisions Successfully Managed With One Solution
- Headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the Strahm Group provides commercial interior construction services for private and public buildings and distributes drywall, steel framing, acoustical ceilings, doors, door frames, and bathroom partitions. In business for more than 75 years, the company had been hesitant to adopt new technology in the past....
- Case studies 2007-11-01
- Living green, building better
- The above picture shows one of the homes designed and built by Michelle Kaufman Designs. GoingGreen, Davis, CA--green building panel. Malcolm Davis, Michelle Kaufmann Designs. Lyndon Rive, Founder & CEO, SolarCity. Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious Materials. Frank Ramirez, CEO,...
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Vendors turn WiFi into a total disaster
- Vendors turn WiFi into a total disasterHaving problems?If you have difficulty getting WiFi signals at your computer, I'd suggest adding an external antenna to your router or network card or both. Many times the antenna that comes with the network card is stuck behind the computer, and it is...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-09
- Qantas ditches Linux for AIX
- Qantas ditches Linux for AIX????"Internal surveys identified fatigue among the airline's 1,200 finance staffers as a particular concern, she added."Perhaps if we downed a few Fosters then the last few paragraphs might make sense? What does any of that have to do with moving off of Linux and onto...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-27
- Pocketfleet MATERIALESTIMATOR DIY edition (Mobile)
- RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTIONMATERIAL ESTIMATOR FOR POCKET PCINTRODUCTORY PRICING! SAVE 40%! Do It YourselfDIY projects are becoming more popular as the cost of hiring contractors goes up and the tools and materials come down. How much paint do you need to paint the kitchen? How many studs do you need to...
- Software downloads 2006-12-22
- WallCalc 7.0 (Mobile)
- WallCalc contains calculators that implement proven estimation algorithms for over twenty different paint types, wallpaper, and drywall! The calculators determine area, and adjust for windows and doors when needed. The drywall calculator even tells you how many pounds of nails you will need! The quantity of materials needed is automatically...
- Software downloads 2006-08-28
- GNCutter 1.1 (Mobile)
- Defines how to cut rectangular pieces from glass, metal, drywall or wood sheets with minimal waste of material. GNCutter uses two types of cutting methods: nesting and guillotine. Guillotine is only method you can use for glass or ceramic cutting. In other cases you can use both methods, though nesting...
- Software downloads 2006-06-26
- GNCutter - Nesting and Guillotine Cutter 1.1 (Mobile)
- Defines how to cut rectangular pieces from glass, ceramic, metal, drywall or wood stocks with minimal waste of material.The most of cutting tasks have to be done on construction sites where you should figure out how to cut pieces in fast-paced environment.GNCutter takes complete care about cutting tasks and makes...
- Software downloads 2006-06-23
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