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Mosquito One: 2015 Season is about to start
Mosquito One: 2015 Season is about to start: We've started a new year and leaving behind a successful 2014 at Mosquito One. With our amazing team on the start and the great amount o...
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
California Plastic Bag Ban. What do you think?
California Plastic Bag Ban
All I have is my feelings about the subject. So, agree with my thought or not that is okay with me. I hate to say that I don't have all the information about this bill, but I don't. I opt for plastic for produce and meat's. Why you might say. Well I don't want any cross contamination. My thoughts are if I am going to use cloth bags for meat, I will have to have a designated bag just for that. Making sure to wash after every use. For me it is about health. But, how much saving the planet am I doing by washing my bags. Or even sharing my feelings about it and others start washing more often.
May be there should be a plastic bag ban, with an exception on items that can cross contaminate.
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All I have is my feelings about the subject. So, agree with my thought or not that is okay with me. I hate to say that I don't have all the information about this bill, but I don't. I opt for plastic for produce and meat's. Why you might say. Well I don't want any cross contamination. My thoughts are if I am going to use cloth bags for meat, I will have to have a designated bag just for that. Making sure to wash after every use. For me it is about health. But, how much saving the planet am I doing by washing my bags. Or even sharing my feelings about it and others start washing more often.
May be there should be a plastic bag ban, with an exception on items that can cross contaminate.
Live Life Love Life
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
7702 what is tthis?
This is off topic but I found it interesting.
Life Insurance Retirement Plan (LIRP), under Internal Revenue Code Section 7702
Will you have enough retirement income?
If you’ve caught yourself wondering whether or not you will have enough income at retirement to continue your current standard of living, you are not alone. In fact, having enough retirement income is one of the leading concerns facing Americans today. Due to the limits on contributions to Individual Retirement Accounts (IRA), Qualified Retirement Plans, and the uncertainty of Social Security retirement benefits, individuals earning high incomes may find that a diminishing percentage of their current compensation can be replaced at retirement through these traditional sources. This is where Life Insurance can help combat the reverse discrimination that hurts successful people.
Learning more about this myself. If you are interestead I can forward information and help find someone to personaly advise you.
Monday, March 3, 2014
Health Freedom Expo 2013 - Chief Scientist "Thunder"
This information ws shared with me. Anyone have any ideas to share....
Saturday, March 1, 2014
2014
Been a while I know. Much going on for me andI haven't had time to be on the computer. New garden comming soon.
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Tuesday, January 14, 2014
garden tips
Find your Master Gardeners in your community.
http://sjmastergardeners.ucanr.edu/?newsitem=49723
You can find lots of information and even classes by connecting with the community.
Happy New Year! We hope you enjoy this issue of Garden Notes. Happy gardening!
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Garden Chores
Lockhart Seeds
Pests and Plants-amping Off, Citrus Leafminer, Creeping Bentgrass, Golden Chain Tree, Lenten Rose, Nandina
Growing Knowledge
Taste, Memory, Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors and Why They Matter
Native Bees
Building a Home for Native Bees
Local Garden Clubs
The Help Desk
Protecting Stormwater
Recipes
Coming Events
2014 Weekend Workshops
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HTML Link: http://sjmastergardeners. ucanr.edu/?newsitem=49723
Vegetable Planting Guide (From Master Gardener Handbook)
Vegetable Garden Basics - ANR publication #8059 (PDF 86kb), is a 7-page document that covers planning and planting a home vegetable garden.
snow peas |
http://sjmastergardeners.ucanr.edu/?newsitem=49723
You can find lots of information and even classes by connecting with the community.
Happy New Year! We hope you enjoy this issue of Garden Notes. Happy gardening!
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Garden Chores
Lockhart Seeds
Pests and Plants-amping Off, Citrus Leafminer, Creeping Bentgrass, Golden Chain Tree, Lenten Rose, Nandina
Growing Knowledge
Taste, Memory, Forgotten Foods, Lost Flavors and Why They Matter
Native Bees
Building a Home for Native Bees
Local Garden Clubs
The Help Desk
Protecting Stormwater
Recipes
Coming Events
2014 Weekend Workshops
Download and view the newsletter here.
HTML Link: http://sjmastergardeners.
Resources
Planting Guide - A useful chart that shows planting and harvesting dates of warm and cool season crops that do well in our area.Vegetable Planting Guide (From Master Gardener Handbook)
Vegetable Garden Basics - ANR publication #8059 (PDF 86kb), is a 7-page document that covers planning and planting a home vegetable garden.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
storing power and battery break through
Found this article and I would like to thank MIT for allowing me to share.
Help Wind and Solar Power Go Big
Low-cost materials could make storing hours of power from a wind farm economically feasible.
- By Kevin Bullis on January 8, 2014
Harvard University researchers say they’ve developed a new type of battery that could make it economical to store a couple of days of electricity from wind farms and other sources of power. The new battery, which is described in the journal Nature, is based on an organic molecule—called a quinone—that’s found in plants such as rhubarb and can be cheaply synthesized from crude oil. The molecules could reduce, by two-thirds, the cost of energy storage materials in a type of battery called a flow battery, which is particularly well suited to storing large amounts of energy.
If it solves the problem of the intermittency of power sources like wind and solar, the technology will make it possible to rely far more heavily on renewable energy. Such batteries could also reduce the number of power plants needed on the grid by allowing them to operate more efficiently, much the way a battery in a hybrid vehicle improves fuel economy.
In a flow battery, energy is stored in liquid form in large tanks. Such batteries have been around for decades, and are used in places like Japan to help manage the power grid, but they’re expensive—about $700 per kilowatt-hour of storage capacity, according to one estimate. To make storing hours of energy from wind farms economical, batteries need to cost just $100 per kilowatt-hour, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
The energy storage materials account for only a fraction of a flow battery’s total cost. Vanadium, the material typically used now, costs about $80 per kilowatt-hour. But that’s high enough to make hitting the $100 target for the whole system impossible. Michael Aziz, a professor of materials and energy technologies at Harvard University who led the work, says the quinones will cut the energy storage material costs down to just $27 per kilowatt-hour. Together with other recent advances in bringing down the cost of the rest of the system, he says, this could put the DOE target in reach.
The Harvard work is the first time that researchers have demonstrated high-performance flow batteries that use organic molecules instead of the metal ions usually used. The quinones can be easily modified, which might make it possible to improve their performance and reduce costs more. “The options for metal ions were pretty well worked through,” Aziz says. “We’ve now introduced a vast new set of materials.”
After identifying quinones as potential energy storage molecules, the Harvard researchers used high-throughput screening techniques to sort through 10,000 variants, searching for ones that had all the right properties for a battery, such as the right voltage levels, the ability to withstand charging and discharging, and the ability to be dissolved in water so they could be stored in liquid tanks.
So far the researchers are using quinones only for the negative side of the battery. The positive side uses bromine, a corrosive and toxic material. The researchers are developing new versions of the quinones that could replace the bromine.
The Harvard researchers are working with the startup Sustainable Innovations to develop a horse-trailer sized battery that can be used to store power from solar panels on commercial buildings.
The Harvard researchers still need to demonstrate that the new materials are durable enough to last the 10 to 20 years that electric utilities would like batteries to last, says Robert Savinell, a professor of engineering and chemical engineering at Case Western Reserve University. Savinell wasn’t involved with the Harvard work. He says initial durability results for the quinones are promising, and says the new materials “without a doubt” can be cheap enough for batteries that store days of electricity from wind farms. And he says the materials “can probably be commercialized in a relatively short time”—within a few years.
The researchers face competition from other startups developing cheaper flow batteries, such as EnerVault and Sun Catalytix (see “Startup EnerVault Rethinks Flow Battery Chemistry” and “Sun Catalytix Seeks Second Act with Flow Battery”). Sun Catalytix is developing inorganic molecules to improve performance and lower cost, although it isn’t saying much about them. EnerVault uses iron and chromium as storage materials and is developing ways to reduce the cost of the overall system.
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saving flower seeds
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