07.03.09- 'Waterless' washing machine cleans using nylon beads
The beads are added to the wash along with as little as a cup of water and a drop of detergent. After the water dissolves the stains, the beads, which become absorbent under humid conditions, soak up the water along with the dirt. The dirt is not just attracted to the surface, but is absorbed into the center of the beads. The beads are removed automatically within the machine at the end of the load so there's no need for the user to worry about separating the beads themselves. They also don't require cleaning and can last for about 100 loads or laundry, or about six months of average family usage. Read More
07.02.09- Positioning for When Water Runs Out: Part 2
An important industry has developed around this fact to treat, clean, and transport this water from its various sources to where people drink it, shower in it, irrigate their fields with it, and use it in literally thousands of manufacturing and agricultural applications. Because of the limited supply, much of this “waste” water is then purified, cleaned, and recycled for use again. But we can only refresh, re-use, and recycle so much. Read More
07.01.09- Positioning for When Water Runs Out: Part I
It takes somewhere between the three pounds of grain the National Cattlemen's Beef Association estimates and the sixteen pounds some environmentalists and vegetarians claim to produce a pound of beef. I believe the truth lies closer to the cattlemen’s numbers - all the ranchers I know, and I know plenty, graze their cattle where they consume vast quantities of weeds and natural grasses. What business person wants to buy grain, adding to their cost of doing business? Read More
06.30.09- A Recipe for Economic Destruction
06.29.09- Heat from the earth
Sunny Ruthchild, local farmer and entrepreneur, is taking a 107-year old building on Main Street in Milroy and bringing it into the 21st Century. The building is the old Milroy State Bank, which is a solid brick structure. Ruthchild picked the building and adjoining lots up at auction for around $1,000.00. Read More
06.27.09- The Thermodynamic Economy
Not too long ago, it bears remembering, most people on all sides of the peak oil debate - believers, skeptics, and everyone in between - assumed that the law of supply and demand would necessarily define the world's response to the end of cheap oil. As existing reserves depleted, nearly everyone agreed, the intersection of decreasing supply and rising demand would drive prices up. Common or garden variety cornucopians insisted that this would lead to more drilling, more secondary extraction, and other measures that would produce more oil and bring the price back down; techno-cornucopians insisted that this would lead to the discovery of new energy resources, which would produce more energy and bring the price back down; green cornucopians insisted that this would finally make renewable energy cost-effective, and at least keep the price from rising further; and pessimists argued that none of these things would happen, and the price of oil would rise steadily on up into the stratosphere. Read More Copyright © 1996-2009
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