Tuesday, November 27, 2007 

Appliances and Your Utility Bill

Your utility bill is a collection of sub-electrical uses from your lights to your heater. Your appliances fall within this category and can suck up amazing amounts of energy.

The power usage of an electrical appliance is of concern to most everyone due to the rising cost of electrical power. The kilowatt meter that is usually attached to the outside of your home measures the watts being used. When those little wheels are spinning wildly, you can anticipate a hefty electric bill in next months mail. When you understand a bit about power consumption, it is possible to reduce your power usage by a considerable amount.

The watt is the most common term associated with power usage. A watt is a measurement of actual work performed by electricity. The watt rating is usually listed on an electrical appliance. Some items use the watt as a descriptive term such as a 30 watt speaker system or a 100 watt light bulb. Other appliances might list amps and voltage, but a simple formula can convert this to watts. The formula is amps x volts = watts.

It is important to note that the watt rating of an appliance refers to its maximum capacity when operating. A 500 watt refrigerator will only use 500 watts when its compressor is running a full blast. Normally, it would be using more like 50 watts to power its electronics. The same would apply to a fan. Its watt rating would refer to its operation at full speed. A computers watt rating would vary depending on how many programs are running.

Some appliances will contain to use some power even when not in use. This would be the case of a clock on a television, for example. In most cases, the best way to conserve power is to reduce the use of an appliance. There are several tactics that can be used to conserve power. Anything that produces heat tends to use more power. Simple things like using cold water rather than hot in the washing machine can translate into a considerable savings.

A wise homeowner would treat electrical power usage in the same manner as a businessman would do it. There are certain things that are necessary, and there are certain things that are not as important. Conservation of electrical power usage not only is wise from a personal economic point of view, but it also is an important part of conservation. Much electrical power is generated by the burning of fossil fuels and growth is putting a serious strain on the supply. Every watt saved by every person can help with this problem. This saving not only will be felt in your wallet, but also in the very air you breathe.

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Weight Loss Affiliate Programs - Surfing The Fitness Trend

In affiliate marketing, choosing the right niche is as important as anything else, and both fitness and weight loss are popular topics - both off - and online. The popularity of niches such as these presents the affiliate marketer with both problems and possibilities; for the right person, this could be a virtual goldmine. But, if you do not do your research thorough enough, you might end up with nothing but lost time.

As the competition hardens and for weight loss sites it will the need of a good plan beforehand increases tenfold; the chance of just winging it and succeeding is virtually zero. But, for marketers with enough patience, working with fitness related affiliate programs can prove very worth while, as these types of program often offers high commission and convert surprisingly well.

Patience is important, as are a few other factors;

Keyword research

Before you start your website or blog, make sure you look closely at as many keywords related to your idea as possible. Use any good keyword research tool or, if you cant afford it, use a free one such as SEO Books tool. The time spent looking for the right combination of keywords is time well spent; finding obscure keyword combinations with more than expected monthly searches is what it is all about. That is basically the same strategy search engine marketers apply on buying traffic through adwords or such.

Good copy

Weather you are writing or re-printing your content, high quality copy will be an important aspect to your success. There are over two million monthly searches for the term weight loss, not counting any other related search term. If you can present your visitors with content highly relevant to the targeted keywords, you will stand a great chance of referring quite a few customers towards an affiliate program.

Well thought out linking strategy

You need to figure out how to obtain your links, and if your keywords are likely to be accepted as anchor when submitting your website to web directories. If you are using any type of blog software, you should tag your posts with care; the right tags can really help you achieve good results in the search engines.

Well converting affiliate program

Last, but not least, you need one or more well converting affiliate programs. As with any popular niche, fitness and weight loss affiliate programs are many in numbers, and choosing the right one may not be as easy as you might think. Look for well respected trademarks, and be careful when joining newly founded affiliate programs. If you feel at all insecure, going with any of the major affiliate networks and any of their weight loss programs will lower the risk of getting ripped off. If you find a program offering commissions to good to be true, this might be a reason not to join them or at east not to send them too many visitors until they have proven themselves to be honest and reliable. You are better off by joining a few affiliate programs, evaluating them as you go, then to send all visitors to the same place only to see them go out of business with your commission still pending.

Theo Swan - Writing about affiliate programs and online revenue. Read more at Affiliate Ranker, or go directly to join a fitness related affiliate program

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Space Sunshade May One Day Reduce Global Warming

Global warming is a reality and increasingly its consequences are upon us. We may think that global warming does not affect us but the fact is it has already started to have disastrous consequences. flash floods, droughts, receding icebergs, cyclones are some of the manifestations of global warming. Although we are aware and worried about it and trying our best to control it but no significant impact could be seen.

Scientists have come up with new strategies to tackle the problem. Now a scientist has suggested an ambitious idea to contain global warming. put sunshades in space. Thats right. University of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel suggests putting sunshades in space and has detailed his idea in a paper Feasibility of cooling the Earth with a cloud of small spacecraft near L1 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He suggests launching a constellation of trillions of small free-flying spacecraft a million miles above Earth into an orbit aligned with the sun, called the L-1 orbit.

This spacecraft would form a long, cylindrical cloud and would have a diameter about half that of Earth, and about 10 times longer. It is suggested that about 10 percent of the sunlight passing through the 60,000-mile length of the cloud, pointing lengthwise between the Earth and the sun, would be diverted away from our planet. This would result in uniformly reduced sunlight by about 2 percent over the entire planet and would balance the heating of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere.

The use of space shade was first mooted by James Early of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1989.

"The earlier ideas were for bigger, heavier structures that would have needed manufacture and launch from the moon, which is pretty futuristic," Angel said. "I wanted to make the sunshade from small 'flyers,' small, light and extremely thin spacecraft that could be completely assembled and launched from Earth, in stacks of a million at a time. When they reached L1, they would be dealt off the stack into a cloud. There's nothing to assemble in space."

Angel proposes to design lightweight flyers made of transparent film pierced with small holes and would be two feet in diameter, 1/5000 of an inch thick and weigh about a gram, the same as a large butterfly. He suggests using MEMS technology mirrors as tiny sails that tilt to hold the flyers position in the orbiting constellation.

The weight of all flyers would be 20 millions tons. But conventional rocket launch system at $10,000 a pound would be too prohibitive. His alternative would cost only around $20 a pound.

He suggests deploying a total 20 electromagnetic launchers launching a stack of flyers every 5 minutes for 10 years. The electromagnetic launchers would use hydroelectric power but even if it uses coal-generated electricity, each ton of carbon used would reduce the effect of 1000 tons of atmospheric carbon.

Once propelled beyond Earths atmosphere the flyer stacks would be steered to L-1 orbit by solar-powered ion propulsion, pioneered by European Space Agency's SMART-1 moon orbiter and NASA's Deep Space 1 probe.

"The concept builds on existing technologies," Angel said. "It seems feasible that it could be developed and deployed in about 25 years at a cost of a few trillion dollars. With care, the solar shade should last about 50 years. So the average cost is about $100 billion a year, or about two-tenths of one percent of the global domestic product."

He added, "The sunshade is no substitute for developing renewable energy, the only permanent solution. A similar massive level of technological innovation and financial investment could ensure that.

"But if the planet gets into an abrupt climate crisis that can only be fixed by cooling, it would be good to be ready with some shading solutions that have been worked out."

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Tips For Properly Installing Your Natural Gas Tankless Water Heater

Many consumers are choosing to upgrade their current tank water heater to the new and improved tankless water heater systems that are available. They offer the convenience so having hot water ready immediately when you want it instead of having to wait for it to heat up in a tank as with older models of water heaters. However, it is very important that you understand how to properly install your tankless water heater if you choose to do it yourself.

The most popular type of tankless water heater uses natural gas. There are some safety procedures you need to be aware of before you attempt to install one. The most important rule to follow is to make sure that the natural gas supply valve is completely turned off. You are going to need to disconnect the pipe that runs from the home to the supply of gas. After disconnecting this pipe the gas will flow into the home and it can result in death if you dont shut it off properly.

It isnt difficult to shut off the natural gas supply, but again it is vital that you do so. There is a switch on the side of the gas meter. Move the handle so that it is in the off position. You need to make sure there is absolutely no gas allowed into your home while you are installing the natural gas tankless water heater.

Next you will need to make sure the fittings from the existing pipe match the new pipe on the natural gas tankless water heater. You can measure them on each end to find out. If they are different then you are going to need to purchase the proper fittings so that everything can be aligned properly.

Make sure you thoroughly inspect it to ensure there is enough ventilation after you have installed the natural gas tankless water heater. This includes having a vent that leads to the outside of the home. You wont be able to vent the unit to an indoor area or you run the risk of death from the natural gas being in the home.

You can also find more information on demand water heaters and water heater systems. eTanklessHotWaterHeater.com is a comprehensive resource for tankless water heater with information on reviews, installation and how it works.

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