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Fotovoltaico - Simulazione di un impianto da 3 Kw We carry on with our voyage through the 5-Star Municipalities. Today it is the turn of the Municipalities of Olivadi, San Vito sullo Ionio and Cenadi in the Catanzaro Province. Ours is the Country of Sunshine and we had better enjoy it before it gets privatised and listed on the Stock Exchange. They will never give up, but neither will we. “Those public administrations that adopt emission reduction policies also contribute to reducing publi
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Modular Homes Taking Over the US It`s no secret that modular homes are growing in popularity. With the recent upsets due to natural disasters in the US, modular homes have become a popular method of getting people housed and back on their feet in as little time as possible. While modular homes aren`t as expensive as site built homes, the end result is just as spectacular and no one will even realize that the homes are actually modular. This makes them ideal for use in disaster zones, but a
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~~~ Roll your mouse over the image~~~ I think that was the saying. .. These images show the LEDs on Phoenix’s Robotic Arm Camera as seen by the Surface Stereo Imager, kind of handy when a robotic lander can take pictures of itself. The cover image is with the LEDs off and if you rollover that one you should see the LED’s on and the image is saturated but it’s a nice effect. Poor Phoenix is very near the end. Between the dust storms, clouds reducing the power available to the lande
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Coyote Blog: And a Pony Jack Tapper of ABC lists all of the goodies promised by Obama in just one stump speech…This may be my favorite, though: “reopen old factories, old plants, to build solar panels, and wind turbines” LOL. Barrack is going to open some of those old GM plants in Flint, Michigan and build solar panels. Seriously, is this a rhetorical flourish or does he really believe that factories are generic production facilities that can make anything, kind of like those little buildings
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Some of elements of a complete urban homestead: intensively productive garden, cob oven, solar ovens, outdoor shower, shed, solar panels (on garage), bees (can you see spot ‘em?) clothes line and at least three composters. I finally got around to updating some of the harvest stats, egg count and honey production (see left hand column) Even with the wacky weather year, we’ve managed to squeeze out (so far) over 4,000lbs of produce, over 2,000 eggs and 25 lbs of honey. No doubt what the eart
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