Light Bulbs

Perhaps in an attempt to harness divine green energy from the ‘Big Man’ himself, the Pope is installing solar panels at the Vatican in Rome.
The old decaying cement roof tiles on the Paul VI auditorium will be replaced by 2,700 solar panels capabile of lighting, heating and cooling the 6,000 seat auditorium.
One of the engineers [...]

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It’s fall, and apples are in season in many places. My friend Missy brought some really fabulous applesauce to a meeting the other morning to share with us all. It was so good, and we all found it hard to believe that the only ingredient in it was apples. What was even harder to believe [...]

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M. Markella asked: You have a lot of options if you want to use alternative bio-fuels to run a diesel engine. You can use only vegetable oils by making some modifications to your diesel engine, or you can use a mix of vegetable oils and other original diesel fuels like petroleum or kerosene. But [...]

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Consumer Reports recently reported that some breakfast cereals marketed to U.S. children are more than half sugar by weight. A serving of 11 popular cereals, including Kellogg’s Honey Smacks, carries as much sugar as a glazed doughnut. And some brands have more sugar and sodium when formulated for the U.S. market than the same brands [...]

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A new photovoltaic paint is being developed by UK university researchers and the steel industry and should be ready for use in three years.  The solar paint consists of a layer of dye and a layer of electrolytes. It is applied to the steel as a liquid paste in four layers.  “If the solar [...]

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