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Getting greener at home could be a gas

Getting greener at home could be a gasGood ideasThere has been many great alternatives, and propane is one of them. But how can it ever get into the mainstream?When you think outside the box, you always get run over by somebody.A case comes to mind in Massachusetts where someone...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, gas, Propane, tax

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Getting greener at home could be a gas

Courtesy: Lehr The folks at Lehr say they have a better idea for many of your home machines: lawn mower, wire trimmer (turns out "weed whacker" is a copyrighted name for Kenmore;s wire trimmer), leaf blowers, etc. Lehr is going to be selling those...

Tags: Gasoline, Lehr, Bernardo Herzer, Propane, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-16

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(Photos: Popular Mechanics' 2009 Breakthrough Award winners)

.....as they circle distant suns?I rather doubt Keppler is travelling at the speed of light. The binary system of Alpha-Centauri is 4.2 light years. At the current speeds of our space craft it would take over 100,000 earth years to reach these closest neighbors to our sun. Popular Mechanics often...

Tags: Popular Mechanics, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Top 10 affordable gadgets for Father's Day [gift guide]

That time of year is almost here. That's right: it's almost Father's Day, and the time to has come to show your appreciation for Dad. Why not get him a gizmo he'll really like? ("But haven't I been showing him...

Tags: Monitor, Camcorder, Dad, Soundbar, Home Entertainment, Personal Technology, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-06-12

Fuel Efficiency Adviser

A typical car's trip computer shows information like average miles per gallon, range to empty, and distance traveled, but if you want to know more about your car's performance--a lot more--then the Fuel Efficiency Adviser deserves a place on your dashboard. Billed as a device to help you drive more...

Tags: Investment, Fuel Efficiency Adviser, Fuel Efficiency, advisor, car

Product reviews 2009-06-11

Terasen Gas Turns to Microsoft BI to Gain Insight and Improve Decision Making

Terasen Gas, part of the Fortis Group, is based in Surrey, British Columbia, and is the third-largest utility company in Canada, providing natural gas and propane to 125 communities throughout the province. Access to accurate data in real-time is critical to the company's success, and it needed technology that would...

Tags: Decision-making, Terasen Inc., Microsoft Corp., Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Telecom & Utilities, Microsoft Office, Marketing, Management, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Office Suites

Case studies 2009-03-13

The future could be a gas with Carbon Science

Diagram courtesy Carbon Sciences. Don't bury it, use it. That's the goal of Carbon Sciences and their plans to make CO2 an asset. We already know it's a problematic greenhouse gas, contributing to climate change. I recently blogged about the push by supporters...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Hydrogen, Carbon Sciences, Elton, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-02-03

Got waste? Feed it to the algae. Presto chango it's valuable.

Helix bioreactor. Courtesy Origin Oil. For a healthier environment today, tomorrow and in the distant future: algae. That's the belief of Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of OriginOil, in Los Angeles. Sound like just another bodiesel start-up? No way, this is a company that...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-01-27

5 days without electricity

I'm going on 5 days without power at this point after the ridiculous ice storm that hit southern New England last Thursday and Friday. It's no longer an adventure. I have broadband courtesy of a little generator that a friend loaned us they had an extra to pump...

Tags: Generator, Corporate Governance, Network Technology, Backups, Broadband Internet, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Networking, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-15

Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail they said could stop the BlackBerry

It's been a bit of a long day...you'll see very shortly why I'm only posting one entry for the day. We had one heck of an ice storm last night and along about 2:00am I woke up to the smell of smoke. We'd lost power, so of...

Tags: RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-12-12

Industrial Gases Desktop 2008 1.1 (Windows)

Industrial Gases Desktop is a new software reference tool that provides industrial gas users, producers and resellers with highly valuable information, while saving time and money. Industrial Gases Desktop software resource conveniently delivers the key industrial gas facts, figures and calculation tools that industry professionals frequently need at their fingertips...

Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Desktop, Management, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Strategy, Tools & Techniques, Veritech Software

Software downloads 2008-10-22

Pishtech's Ice Fishing Derby 080708 (Windows)

Pishtech's Ice Fishing Derby is great fun for all ages, whether or not you enjoy ice fishing in real life. It's a five day fishing derby with big money on the line. The weather's not bad at all for the first day, but the forecast is for steadily falling temperatures....

Tags: Shop, Bait, Fish, Pishtech, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-07-14

Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for cars

Nanotechnology-based clean hydrogen for carsI don't get it[i]The most interesting part of the story is that the existing gas stations would not need to be modified to distribute hydrogen.[/i]I thought H2 is in gas form at normal temperature and pressure.How can they use an existing fuel pump to pump H2...

Tags: Liquid Nitrogen, hydrogen tank, nanotechnology, Combustion, hydrogen, O2 Plc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-27

Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soon

Private IE 8 beta 1 test build coming soonEven though I'm a Microsoft-enthusiasts, I'm not invited by Microsoft.However, I do love to test Internet Explorer 8 when it's available as a public beta.I can't wait to get my hands in it.I feel cheatedThey have deprived me of the chance to...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Try IE8, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-23

Off the grid: energy independence in the real world

Off the grid: energy independence in the real worldTarget a non-desert climate next time!Interesting, but it'd be far more interesting if there were someone doing this for a climate other than desert (aka California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas) - such as, for instance, Western Washington. We have...

Tags: Western Washington, power source

Discussion threads 2008-02-21

New data center facilities company finds green home on the range

New data center facilities company finds green home on the rangeGreen is GoodI would really like to see the business model as to how the ROI's will work. Green is a great thing to do however it can be costly when trying to create and maintain a facility that runs...

Tags: Data centers, Storage, Desktops, data center facilities company, New data center facilities company, data center

Discussion threads 2008-02-19

SmartDraw Case Study: H & H Gas Corporation

Larry Horowitz is Owner & President of H & H Gas in Windsor, Ontario. H & H has been in business since 1947, when they started out selling chicken equipment to local farmers. From there, they branched into selling and installing propane for their customers' heating needs. As owner, Larry's...

Tags: SmartDraw, Larry Horowitz, H & H, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance

Case studies 2008-02-13

Save Our Planet 1.7 (Windows)

Save Our Planet provides the tools and strategies needed to conserve energy and fight global warming. Save Our Planet pays for itself by giving you the tools and discipline needed to reduce your electricity, propane/natural gas, water and gasoline bills. Product Features: Daily conservation tools and...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Global Warming, Tool, Energy, South Beach Software, Productivity, Strategy, Management

Software downloads 2008-01-24

The polycarbonate all-in-one 22" LCD PC

The polycarbonate all-in-one 22" LCD PCNot a belt sanderThis version is way, way better than your wooden version. But wouldn't a random orbital sander work better? Belt sanders are pretty harsh.A very nice project however...I feel this blog is slowly losing relevance to the tech world. I...

Tags: Blogging, PC, LCD, belt sander, polycarbonate

Discussion threads 2008-01-22

Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidies

Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesLet's end it altogether.Are we going to be paying this tax like the phone bill tax that paid for the Spanish-American War 100 years after the war ended?Terry ThomasAtlantaRE: Panel urges FCC to cap rural phone subsidiesIt should have been ended a long...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Network technology, Right Now IT, phone, rural area, rural phone subsidy, phone subsidy, cable, FCC

Discussion threads 2007-11-22