Archive for the 'environment' Category

Small houses

I have a dream of having one of these buildings (slideshow at Wired.com) in my back yard as a home office someday. Another dream is to get an acreage and scatter several of these buildings around with some paths connecting them together.

The sun is a ball of incandescent gas…

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This is the best summary of solar energy capture methods that I have seen. It has the advantage of not being written by a science writer and gets just technical enough to help you understand the various methods.