Appliances to make energy instead of use it

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The other day, several on Twitter floated an article from EcoGeek on the fact that Ace Hardware will be selling micro wind turbines for family homes. Around 6 grand will get you one of these suckers installed on your roof right next to all the bird poop. The idea is fascinating. [...]

The Kindle will have to wait for me. Library still wins for now.

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Baltimore Sun ran a story today about how local library usage was up now that we’re all broke for the 2009 recession. I thought that kind of interesting since last week, I went down to the North Asheville branch for the first time in a year. It brought me back to my [...]