This is part two of the first compost trial being conducted at the Fair Oaks Horticulture Center In Fair Oaks California. This video was up before, but someone took exception to our choice of intro music. I was forced to take it down and cut the intro off. Youtube is ripe with copyright infringement. Why they want to pick on us is anyone’s guess.

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As the Muezzin sings the camera pans over the rooftop of Pharmacist Mohammed Salim’s home in Palestine not far from Bethlehem where he has built his own wind generators, with flexible blades cut out of plastic sewage pipes and which generates electricity using old treadmill motors and rewired washing machine motors.

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This guide to solar panels for the home covers information about the installation and building of your own panels. The basics are laid out in an easy informative manner with tips on how to find wholesale panels, getting solar panels if you are a renter, use of solar energy for your pool and much more…. More >>

Solar Energy For The Home: The Facts About Solar Panels

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The concept of composting has been around for quite a long time in the forests. Leaves fall to the forest floor, decompose, and their nutrients will be absorbed back into the trees through the roots. Farmers and Gardeners have been taking advantage of the nutrient rich by product from this decomposition for thousands of years and you can too.
Composting is a great way to add nutrients to your garden or potting soil. Not only is it good for your garden and plants, it also is a good way for you to help reduce your overall garbage going to the dump. There are no hard and fast rules in what you should do your composting in. In fact you could do it in a pile in the yard, although it will probably not be well accepted by the rest of your family. While you can go out and buy a commercially sold unit that will do well for all your composting needs, I prefer to save a few bucks and build one myself.
The real hero’s in the world of composting are the fungi, bacteria, worms and other insects that will take your yard and kitchen waste and turn it into the black gold you want for your pots and garden. Now it is in your best interest to keep these guys in good conditions so they can digest the food you give them. Their basic requirements are just like you and I, they are food, water, and air. If you want to help these insects and microbes along, keep your compost in a nice cool corner of your yard.
To better understand these basic needs for your compost let’s start with the food. Essentially there are two types of food. There are the brown foods that include straw, autumn leaves, wood chips/sawdust, and dead plant material. These materials mainly consist of long chains of sugar molecules that the microbes digest and use as a source of energy. There are also the greens such as green grass and weeds, kitchen fruit and vegetables, coffee grounds, and tea bags. These materials have a lot more nitrogen in them than the browns. This nitrogen in your compost pile acts as a source of protein to all those microbes for them to feed off of as well.
The next part is the air. It is very important to get good airflow into your pile. The microbes you want to decompose your pile cannot do this without air. If there is no air supply then other microbes will move in. They will also do the job but they work a lot slower and tend to make the compost smell like rotten garbage. So unless you want your backyard to smell like the city dump you will have it “fluff” your pile. “Fluffing” your pile is easily done with a spade or a garden fork. You will have to completely break it apart and then pile it back together leaving it in a “Fluffy” condition.
Some “food” like grass clippings or wet leaves will sit heavy on the pile and not allow good air flow through that portion of the pile. You should mix this sort of ingredient into the pile to avoid a spot that won’t decompose very easily. Straw is a great ingredient to add to your compost because unlike grass they will not mat down into slimy layers and add to the airflow.
Water is the last important ingredient in your compost. This is where it gets a little tricky. You need to get the water just right to aid and not hinder the work of the microbes. Too wet and the pile gets too heavy and the airflow gets cut off to the middle of the pile. Too dry and the microbes will not be able to break down the waste as easily. Ideally you want to get every particle wet but not saturated. In wet climates you may need a lid or a tarp to avoid saturation.
Having a good mix of the greens and browns is a good thing for a few reasons. Not only does it supply all your little microbes with a good diet, but it also helps in airflow since the browns are dry and “light” and the greens are wet and “heavy”.

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I am sure that many of you might not be knowing about the Home wind turbine technology. However, the wind turbine technology is making a new wave nowadays due to its’ numerous advantages and implications. Companies are constantly working on new technology in Wind Turbine. Wind turbine energy comes second only to natural gas as a source of new electricity generation in the United States.

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Today you’re going to find out what the best DIY solar panel kits for homes are…

You are also going to be given basic instructions for building your own solar system for a little less than $250, that may scale back your electricity bill by at least eighty percent, and even more if you cut back on needless energy waste due to leaving lights on when your not in the room, or not switching devices off at the wall.

A basic DIY solar panel kit will include the following things – Plywood – this is an especially inexpensive wood and can be acquired in big quantities from hardware stores or builders.

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With the cost of fuel being very unstable and the ever rising price of electricity isn`t it nice to know that there is a way that we can reduce our utility bills. I`m not talking about going round and turning off every light and appliance that you are not using (although this is of course a good start) I`m talking about renewable wind energy. Did you know that if you build your own wind generator you can make free energy for your home? Wind power for homes is one of the fastest growing sources of power of any of the renewable energy technologies available today.

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• CE/ISO certified, efficient. Low start up wind speed at 4.47mph
• Low cost proven systems deployed worldwide with good performance track records.
• mechanical furling overspeed control, hybrid wind/solar controller
• Includes generator, 3 blades/hub, tail, controller, generator-controller 50 foot cable, nose cone.

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2KW system is a low Torque, low wind system, rated 2000w at 20 mph, startup wind speed is 4.47 mph.

Wind/Solar Hybrid Charge Controller is included to convert AC to DC. Charge controller can handle 2000w wind load and 600w solar load. Hybrid inverter also has built-in dump load function.

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• CE/ISO certified, efficient. Low start up wind speed at 4.47mph
• Low cost proven systems deployed worldwide with good performance track records.
• mechanical furling overspeed control, hybrid wind/solar controller
• Includes generator, 3 blades/hub, tail, controller, generator-controller 50 foot cable, nose cone.

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2KW system is a low Torque, low wind system, rated 2000w at 20 mph, startup wind speed is 4.47 mph.

Wind/Solar Hybrid Charge Controller is included to convert AC to DC. Charge controller can handle 2000w wind load and 600w solar load. Hybrid inverter also has built-in dump load function.

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