Have you ever taken the platter off your Technic 1200 turntable? If so, then you know that the turntables’ secret is not direct drive but magnetic drive. Our friends atGrow Room Energy have developed such a system that you build yourself for your home.
It’s called a PMG, or Permanent Magnetic Generator. A PMG generates alternating current (AC) that can ultimately be used by your home and help lower, even eliminate, your electric bill each month!
Although the technology has been around for quite some time, it has never been adapted for personal home use, until now!
Working at very low rotational speed, the PMG is capable of producing 180W of electricity at just 420 RPM! Modifications can be made so that the PMG produces even more power at higher speeds, putting even more money directly into your bank account each month!!
Here is a step by step guide to building your own PMG.
Step 1: Order the Magnet4Power Manual for Just $49! (About ½ of what You Pay For Just 1 Month of Electricity!)
Step 2: Follow The Step-By-Step Instructions To Build Your Own PMG For as Little As $100.
Step 3: Install and Wait For Your Next Electric Bill!
That’s it. Doesn’t get much easier, does it? From the moment you order the Magnet4Power manual, you will have instant access. You’ll be able to go out and buy the supplies you need to be generating electricity in your very own back yard within days – possibly hours depending on how excited you are to get it up and running!
Don’t worry. You don’t need to be a construction worker or have a garage filled with expensive tools and equipment to create your very own PMG system! Armed with the Magnet4Power easy-to-read manual, some simple hand tools, and the determination to free yourself from the power company once and for all, you have everything you need to build your very own professional quality PMG guaranteed!
GCR will be helping you understand what it means to be green. Since I started Green Collar Rap people have been asking me what is it? What does it do? I always give the same answer. It’s a blog that inspires conversations with information about environmental and social issues. We now provide Home Efficiency Consulting Please take the time to check out our new page http://greencollarrap.com/hec This week we will discuss “What Green Means To You And Your Home”. From materials to mechanical systems.
Today’s Topic:: Electrical and Mechanical Systems
These points and tips are meant to be your check list. They should help you with some of your home renovations If your looking to start building your home from scratch or just making improvements.
Electrical Systems
* Selection of high efficiency light sources
* Installation of photovoltaic system to supplement electrical requirements and/or provide electricity credit to homeowner
Mechanical Systems
* HVAC (Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning)
* With high insulation envelope and passive solar design, mechanical systems can be designed to be much smaller
* High efficiency geothermal systems use heat exchanged from earth rather than air
* Pressure testing sealed duct systems to minimize leakage, maximize efficiency
* Natural Ventilation
Thank you for taking the time to read these suggestions. Feel free to drop me a email if you have more questions. ////Millen
GCR will be helping you understand what it means to be green. Since I started Green Collar Rap people have been asking me what is it? What does it do? I always give the same answer. It’s a blog that inspires conversations with information about environmental and social issues. We now provide Home Efficiency Consulting Please take the time to check out our new page http://greencollarrap.com/hec This week we will discuss “What Green Means To You And Your Home”. From materials to mechanical systems.
Today’s Topic:: Solar Orientation
These points and tips are meant to be your check list. They should help you with some of your home renovations If your looking to start building your home from scratch or just making improvements.
Solar Orientation
* Minimizing solar gain in summer
* Maximizing solar gain in winter
* Overhangs/Sun Screens
* Use of natural light for day-lighting
* Designed location of key plantings
* Thermo Mass
GCR will be helping you understand what it means to be green. Since I started Green Collar Rap people have been asking me what is it? What does it do? I always give the same answer. It’s a blog that inspires conversations with information about environmental and social issues. This week we will discuss “What Green Means To You And Your Home”. From materials to mechanical systems.
Today’s topic- Certified Materials. These points and tips are meant to be your check list. They should help you with some of your home renovations.
Certified Materials
* Use of high R-value (thermal resistance) insulating building materials
* Use of low U-value (reciprocal of R-value) windows
* Use of low-E glass (low=emittance) to reduce heat loss
* Use of engineered lumber
* Use of FSC certified lumber from sustainable forests
* Use of recycled building products
* Maximize use of local natural materials
* Low/no VOC paints and coatings
GCR will be helping you understand what it means to be green. Since I started Green Collar Rap people have been asking me what is it? What does it do? I always give the same answer. It’s a blog that inspires conversations with information about environmental and social issues. This week we will discuss “What Green Means To You And Your Home”. From materials to mechanical systems. Today’s topic starts at the beginning. The Home Site. These points and tips are meant to be your check list. They should help you with some of your home renovations.
The Home Site
* Minimize disturbance of natural site
* Orienting home for maximum southern exposure
* Removing as few planting as possible
* Adding additional indigenous plantings
* Minimize lawn area
* Minimize imperious surfaces- gravel parking
Our friends over at http://watchmojo.com sent over some environmental tips just to remind everyone to do their part. Enjoy.
*Check out more helpful life info @ http://watchmojo.com
Tis the season again. and some of you are getting a early jump on your holiday shopping. With the help of friends over at Greenguide.com. Green Collar Rap has put together a Environmental Gift Giving Guide.
How to Buy a Green Gift
1. Be thoughtful about your purchase and pick items built to last. Even greener options don’t make good gifts if they end up in an attic or landfill after the holidays.
2. Pick products made from recycled or renewable materials
3. Look for fair trade imports. Such as jewlery, houseware and handcrafts.
4. When in doubt, buy food. Organic, Fair Trade Certified and locally grown and gift baskets are your best bet and usually don’t go to waste.
I was sitting in the kitchen and I started to think of how prepare am I? The answer is I’m really not. Are you? Tip of the hat to Areyouprepared.comThe 7 Steps to Preparedness will help us get it together. Please check out http://readypa.gov for a more in-depth look into being prepared for certain situations. Be Informed, Be Prepared, Be Involved.
1. Create a Plan of Action and Know what to do.
a. Find out what can happen in your area.
i. Learn what to do before, during and after every disaster.
b. Create a Disaster Plan for your family and business.
i. Evacuation
ii. Meeting places for family members
iii. Out of state contact person
iv. Post your Important Phone Numbers.
v. Review the check list “How Safe is Your House?”
vi. Know how to shut off your utilities.
vii.Know how to “Report an Emergency.”
c. Practice and Maintain your plan.
2. Prepare items for Quick Action
a. Prepare a 3 Day Evacuation Kit.
b. Have a 1st Aid Kit.
c. Have at least ½ tank of Gas in your vehicle.
d. Keep cash on hand in smaller bills.
e. Review your Action Plan Checklist.
3. Preparing for up to 1 year
a. Store Food.
b. Store Water and know how to purify it.
c. Gather and put in place the 40+ most over looked items.
d. Take inventory of your possessions at home and work.
e. Review your insurance policies.
f. Keep immunizations current.
g. Consider: Clothing, Shelter, Heat, Light, Fuel, Cooking and Sanitation items. (more…)
1 – Stop accepting highly polluting plastic bags. – Spend a few dollars and buy a couple of canvas shopping bags, which will last decades of safe use, and say no to paper, or plastic bags, and proudly take your own canvas tote bags to the market shopping.
To dispose of our biodegradable garbage, we should buy a mid size plastic container with a tight led on it and use it for all of our fruits peels and pits, vegetables cutouts, animal bones, etc., in general any biodegradable foods element that grow out of Mother Earth. – And all the rest we should recycle and take to our apartment building, or town’s recycling places.
2 – Buy a dozen, or so, soft cotton handkerchiefs for wiping our noses and mouths. We should also buy a dozen cotton wiping cloth and dish towels, especially for use in the kitchen, bathroom and generally around the house. Simple healthy solution that can save us thousands of dollars a year and prevent trees turning into paper products and soon after into garbage.
3 – We need to constantly remind ourselves that our one, and only home, Planet Earth, is not disposable. We must stop buying any disposable products, and products made out of plastic, or packaged in plastic. We need to truly and seriously reuse and recycle. Manufacturing and transporting plastic bottles causes enormous environmental harm to us all. – A gallon (128.oz) of plastic bottled water costs on average about $8, but a much better quality water, filtered tap water, costs about $0.25 cents a gallon, the water filter, which will last a year, if used for drinking water only costs $30. – It has been estimated that a family unit of 2 people on average, drinks about 220 gallons of water each year, which means a substantial saving of $1730 a year. (more…)
Help for households to make ends meet in the recession
This book is packed with tips for getting more from your money.
• Organise a swap party – clothes, seeds, toys – why buy new?
• Buy food in bulk with friends – bring the price down
• Save money on the cinema – create a DVD club
• Take a flask of coffee to work and save over $2,000 a year
• Join a car share club – you don’t need a car!
With recession taking hold and the credit crunch biting, it’s not all doom and gloom.
Whilst it may be harder to make ends meet, there are a lot of little things that you
can do to save money, and ideas that will give you the opportunity to get together
with other people, cut your waste down and slow down a bit.
Your Money is a simple A-Z guide packed with tips for saving money on everything from credit cards to car boot sales and toys to travel: whether it is managing your mortgage or your mobile phone, finding freebies or creating different ways of having fun which cost pence rather than pounds, this book gives you the information and ideas you need to save cash and ride out the hard times.
