Wide Open Spaces: Smoking Pests with a .25 Caliber Air Rifle is Too Much Fun
Three-Phase Power Explained
This video will take a close look at three-phase power and explain how it works. Three-phase power can be defined as the common method of alternating current power generation, transmission, and distribution. It is a type of polyphase system, and is the most common method used by electric grids worldwide to transfer power.
Prevent ‘Lifestyle Creep’ from Eating Your Wealth – Barron’s
As college students, many of us become experts at living the frugal life. We cook dinner for friends using the one knife and two pots we bought from TJ Maxx or “borrowed” from Mom’s kitchen. We take the bus, tape broken items back together, and celebrate the luxury of our first apartment without roommates, even if it’s a 600-square-foot studio.
Then our income increases, and certain behaviors become outside our comfort zone. We get used to buying everything brand new and wonder how we ever survived without a $300 blender. We might have fond memories of staying in hostels while backpacking around Europe or Asia, or seeing a mind-blowing Broadway show on a $30 standing room ticket, but we wouldn’t do that now.
New efforts to put the genie back in the bottle | Waste Dive
Because PFAS variants are found in a variety of common products, which can end up in landfills when disposed, low concentrations are consistently appearing in leachate as chemicals are released from naturally degrading material. Landfill leachate is collected and treated to remove regulated contaminants, but most wastewater treatment plants do not remove PFAS. Wastewater biosolids are often testing positive for PFAS, prompting changes in their use as a soil amendment, so continued landfilling remains one of the primary options. Additionally, U.S. compost facilities have found PFAS in soil products due to contamination in the material stream. MRFs are also sorting through materials containing PFAS on a daily basis – including paper, plastics and other coated products.
I wonder if Six Mile Waterworks has PFAS in it? I bet that is question that City of Albany hopes is never asked. They really should think about banning PFAS in all uses -- because if you put that chemical in products, it's going to be out there in environment.
Plastic vs. Glass vs. Aluminum | Earth911.com
I am opposed to glass bottles, because they frequently break and leave shards in the woods, potentially for a long period of times. Broken glass easily cuts hands and feet, punctures tires, and lead to severe injury. Not to mention that they are heavy. Aluminum (which is actually plastic coated with BPA or similiar less toxic resin to protect flavor), is probably my second favorite, especially with the bottle deposit laws taking back the cans. Aluminum also stays pretty cold in the coolers and is quite lightweight, although sometimes punctures and can tear and be a safety hazard with sharp edges. Aluminum cans can also last in the woods a long time. Plastic bottles I think get a bit of an unfair reputation -- they don't last as long in the woods as glass or metal, they aren't likely to cause cuts or injury (even if swallowed compared to metal or glass), they can be burned, and they are also recycable. Sure, plastic doesn't work for beer and certain other beverages, but it's the lightest, safest material out there.
Light filters through
Pontsuc Lake and Onota Lake
Reservoirs near Pittsfield as seen from Round Top.
Taken on Saturday September 17, 2011 at Mount Greylock.