Increasing personal safety at home

Each one of us deserves to be safe in our home. You can do many things and precautions to prevent unwanted people or intruders from entering your home. For example, installing locks or putting extra lights. Even the simplest household items can help to protect you in a situation where an intruder enters your home. ...

What is Solar Wind Energy Storage

The solar wind energy is a combination of energy that comes from both the power of solar together with wind energy. When the sun warms the earth in varying locations and times thus causes several different portions fluctuating unevenly in temperature. This will enable hot air to rise and reduce atmospheric pressure on the earth\'s ...

The Requirements for Solar Hot Water

The solar hot water heating systems uses solar panels (such as evacuated tubes or flat plate collectors) which are also known as collectors usually installed on top of your house roof. It will collect heat from the sun and use it to warm the house water stored in a hot water cylinder. Below is some ...

What are solar power bags

The solar powered bag is designed to help its users in converting solar energy into electric energy which is normally portable and enable you to bring it along where ever you go. Its usage is to charge portable electric gadget and devices such as laptops, cell phones, cameras and I-pods.Below is some of the information ...

Putting Solar Panels over your Tile Roof

Doing any kind of task on a roof of your house is always a challenging work. You must be extra careful because with your weight, you can easily make the tiles crack. Too much drilling work will also cause the tiles to break. Although it is a challenging work, the usage of solar panels will ...

Creating your Own Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products

You can use a lot of simple ingredients to create eco-friendly cleaning products such as baking soda (bicarbonate of soda), essential oils such as tea tree and eucalyptus oil for their anti-bacterial properties, salt, lavender oil, olive oil, lemon juice and vinegar (distilled white) because all these items clean as well as the commercial cleaning ...

Being prepared when the power fails

Power failure or outages can happen everywhere and anytime. Sometimes you will experience power cut when there is a storm, or when the electric pole gets hit by a squirrel or a vehicle. When the power goes out, how prepare are you to deal with the blackout. Here are some useful tips that you can ...

Saving money with going green tips

Saving money is the most thing people want to do right now amidst the economic downturn that we are going through. There are so many things that you can do by going green around your house, by doing so you can save more money as you desire. Other than saving money, going green can make ...

Growing Strawberries

Everybody loves the sweetness and sourness of strawberries when made into jam, cakes, pudding or even eaten on their own. Strawberries are easy to plant and beautiful for your garden at home. The first fruits usually appear in spring, you can find many types of strawberries that can be planted according to your place and ...

The right way to use a Solar-Powered Generator

If you want to purchase a portable solar-powered generator, you must first determine how many watts the machine can handle at one time over the amount of time you would use it for your home. The amount is different according to the unit size and number of watts, thus the more power that you choose, ...

The best place to install your solar hot water panel

A proper installation of the solar hot water panels helps the system to provide efficiency in capturing the maximum solar energy in transforming it into heat energy and giving hot water to your house. Below is some of the information that can help you in finding the best place to install your Solar Hot Water ...

Repairing your Solar Water Heating

For having an orderly and long lasting solar water heating system, a proper maintenance and repair schedule need to done so that you can monitor the parts and components such as pumps, valves and their controls, insulation, wiring, pipes, seals and the solar collector. By understanding how the solar water heater works will enable you ...

Save Energy through Lighting

Lights are installed in every corner of the house and the energy consumption is around 20%. With the rising cost of living standard in a gloomy economy, there is even more urgency to save the pennies. This is possible with the right usage of lights.Everybody talks about energy saving lights. Do you know what are ...

Rechargeable Batteries, One of the Best Products in Town

Now we all know that mercury is a very powerful yet poisonous mineral which cannot be dissolved once attached. This is why the disposal of batteries becomes very crucial to prevent mercury being emitted into the land or water which would eventually transfer to us.As much as there are contentions about the mercury content in ...

Constructing a Rusty Iron Fence

A rusty iron fence not only gives an antique look to your garden, it also provides space for your creeper plants to grow. Constructing a rusty iron fence is dangerous and thus, remember to put on gardening gloves (not rubber gloves) before you handle them. It can also prove to be quite hard, especially if ...

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