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Light Bulbs > LED vs Halogen

March 2nd, 2009 Jobe Roberts 4 comments
LED vs Halogen

Update: LED failure after 7 months.  The expensive 4 watt LED bulb which I really like, started to flash on and off.  It would seem that it's broken.  I do not believe that it was knocked or damaged, it simply started flashing a few days ago.  Even after pulling it out for a couple of ...

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Heat Pumps to Reduce Your Energy Costs

February 13th, 2009 Jobe Roberts 4 comments
Bright Spot in a Dark Corner

When many of us hear the words heat pump, we might think air-conditioner or refrigerator. It's nothing new, it seems like old technology, but truth be told, heat pumps have been improving over the years; getting more efficient all of the time. For many of us, refrigerators don't even sound environmentally friendly, but they ...

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Steorn’s Perpetual Motion Still in Motion

February 6th, 2009 Jobe Roberts No comments
steorn

Update Dec. 27 2009: Steorn's Orbo Successfully Replicated. This independent replication and demonstration of Steorn's Orbo a.k.a. magnet motor by Jean-Louis Naudin helps confirm that something of interest is happening : http://jnaudin.free.fr/steorn/indexen.htm But how much energy does this device generate? Steorn is back in the news again.  This company claims that it has created a device named Orbo ...

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No Matter What You Cannot Change the Past

January 30th, 2009 Jobe Roberts 2 comments
Classic Red Car in Havana

You can only act in the now.  Most of us can remember the past and the decisions we've made over the years to get to this point in time.  I do not doubt for a moment that the past has a very significant role on what the future will be shaped into.  It's so crucial ...

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Honda: Saving GM, Ontario, Jobs, & the planet too… (part 2)

December 11th, 2008 Mitch Brisebois 1 comment

It's a four-point plan: Diversity of products, smart use of interest-free loans, energy-production, pollution-reduction. First we start with Honda. It's not really a car company. It's an engine company. You can buy a few variants of their engines with four wheels, two wheels. Some engines cut your lawn. Others generate ...

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Heat Pumps + MicroCHP = DIY Home Generators?

July 13th, 2008 Jobe Roberts 16 comments
Water Wheel

When two complimentary technologies collide for the first time, sparks fly. The excitement comes at the prospect of generating heat and electricity by harvesting the heat out of the ground below your house. For a number of years now we've known about heat pumps. They're basically a refrigerator that moves heat from one place to another. ...

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SM traffic fickle to measure – Icelandic web hosting?

September 27th, 2007 Baxter 2 comments

The readership that we have at SensoryMetrics is at times impressive. Usually it's about 2 to 6 hundred people a day. However, our comments seem so low with only about 5 to 8 regular participants along with a few thousand spam comments which occasionally get past us. Of course, we probably also ...

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