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Thanksgiving is almost here, and in celebration of the national holiday I thought I would put together a little twenty questions quiz for those of you who are trivia buffs. I’ll use questions from American History and if I can find some actual thanksgiving questions I’ll include them but you never know what kind of strange trivia I may come up with.
Posted: 2009-11-20
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Ok, I admit it, I am a science junkie. I’m not really smart enough to understand all of the stuff I read, but I still find it fascinating. It probably goes hand in hand with being a lover of science fiction.
Posted: 2009-11-18
Category: Arts & Entertainment
There are a lot of home improvement ideas floating around out there, and every one has his own opinion of what a good home improvement idea is. Well I think instant hot water from your fixtures is a great idea!
Posted: 2009-11-17
Category: Home Improvement
Well, this was a pretty quiet Veterans Day. I didn’t go anywhere or celebrate in any particular way, but it sounds like an excuse to put up an article consisting of about twenty quiz questions involving Veterans Day and or military and war trivia questions and the like.
Posted: 2009-11-15
Category: Arts & Entertainment
By making your home more energy efficient and water efficient you’re are improving the resale value of your home and providing yourself with reduced water and energy bills and added convenience. Turn your plumbing green.
Posted: 2009-11-12
Category: Home Improvement
What is green plumbing? Well, green plumbing when applied to residential plumbing layouts, would mean plumbing that reduces your energy and or water wastage; an efficient plumbing system.
Posted: 2009-11-12
Category: Home Improvement
Going green is getting to be quite a popular thing to do these days. Many people are purchasing tankless water heaters with the idea that they are purchasing a “green plumbing product”. But just how green are they?
Posted: 2009-11-06
Category: Home Improvement
Many residential single family and multi-family homes built in the past have full time hot water recirculation pumps and systems installed. This no doubt saves a whole lot of water, but it also wastes a tremendous amount of energy.
Posted: 2009-10-28
Category: Home Improvement
Saving water and saving energy in a residential home setting, is largely a behavioral problem. If you observe how people use their water for instance, you can spot wasteful behaviors all over the place.
Posted: 2009-10-08
Category: Environmental
Tankless water heaters are all the rage now. Green is in and tankless heaters are considered greener than storage water heaters. They don't have standby losses and so they are typically more energy efficient than tank type units. Are they really green?
Posted: 2009-10-04
Category: Home Improvement
Most single family homes today are wasting tremendous amounts of water and energy because of poor plumbing layouts, inefficient plumbing methods, and inefficient water heaters. These issues are addressed in this article. You can improve the hot water efficiency of your homes plumbing and save energy and water.
Posted: 2009-08-28
Category: Home Improvement
The benefits of hot water recirculation are rather obvious. You get nearly instant hot water which is convenient, and you save a substantial amount of water. But there are a few other issues to consider.
Posted: 2009-08-19
Category: Home Improvement
Have you ever wished you had quick hot water while you run precious water down the drain waiting for the hot water to reach the fixture? A low-cost solution brings you quick hot water and saves you water and money!
Posted: 2009-07-18
Category: Home Improvement
There is a lot more waste going on than meets the eye when it comes to water usage. We humans are wasting enormous amounts of one of our most precious natural resources on a daily basis, and there is a simple inexpensive way to eliminate that waste.
Posted: 2009-07-16
Category: Home Improvement
Green plumbing is the most energy efficient plumbing system that also provides for water conservation. Green products associated with plumbing systems are hot water demand systems and tankless water heaters.
Posted: 2009-07-13
Category: Home Improvement
What is a recirc pump? Its a circulating pump, a pump normally used in large residential plumbing layouts where it would take much too long to get hot water by just running the faucet. Replacing it with a demand hot water system results in a much greener system.
Posted: 2009-07-13
Category: Home Improvement
This article describes what you need to do to get your web site to the top of the search engine results pages. It provides you with the big picture and helps you form a strategic plan for web site success.
Posted: 2009-05-26
Category: SEO
Article compares two water conservation products, the Metlund pump and the Chilipepper pump. These systems are designed to provide faster hot water at the fixtures without running water down the drain while you wait for the hot water to reach you.
Posted: 2009-05-25
Category: Product Reviews
Article discusses green plumbing systems, what makes them green, and how to make them greener. Included in the discussion are hot water demand type delivery systems, hot water plumbing layouts and tankless water heaters.
Posted: 2009-05-25
Category: Home Improvement
I was reading one of the forums I subscribe to when one of the participants reported that he had hired an outfit to submit his site to a bunch of directories. He further stated that overnight he could not keep up with the orders. He said it increased his business by more than ten times!
Posted: 2009-05-24
Category: SEO
There is no secret to getting top rankings for your site. If you start with high quality content, present that information properly to the search engines and obtain external links you will receive a high ranking. Getting links is not difficult if your content is indeed of high quality.
Posted: 2009-05-24
Category: SEO
Dip tubes, although simple, are very important to the operation of gas and electric water heaters. Without a dip tube you won't get much hot water. This article describes their function and what happens when they break or become damaged.
Posted: 2009-05-20
Category: Home Improvement
When choosing a tankless water heater for a particular application, there are a number of things to consider. Tankless water heaters are great energy savers in some applications, but they won't always save you money. Point of use tankless water heaters are the green solution for hot water systems!
Posted: 2009-05-20
Category: Home Improvement
The US Patent Office did away with the requirement for invention prototypes / models in 1880. However, the small inventor should not do the same. Invention prototypes are a valuable tool for the inventor in a number of ways.
Posted: 2009-05-20
Category: Entrepreneurs
This article compares four major brands of tankless water heaters; Bosch, Noritz, Rinnai, and Takagi. Specifications are examined and what the important factors are when considering such a unit.
Posted: 2009-05-19
Category: Product Reviews
The sediment in the bottom of your water heater is any solid material that settles to the bottom. Its can be sand or other debris from your well or the water mains, or it can be minerals, (calcium carbonate), that precipitates out of the water at higher temperatures.
Posted: 2009-05-19
Category: Home Improvement
This article compares two hot water demand systems, the ACT Metlund D'Mand S-70T and the Chilipepper CP6000 hot water demand systems. Demand type hot water delivery systems are designed to speed up the delivery of hot water to your fixtures without running any water down the drain. These systems only operate when you "demand" your hot water by activating the pump. Usually that means pushing a button.
Posted: 2009-05-10
Category: Product Reviews
This article compares the Metlund D'Mand system pump, the S-50T model, to the Chilipepper CP6000. The information is predominately from the Metlund web site, but since the author is the original inventor of both the Metlund pump, and the Chilipepper pump he is well qualified to evaluate the two systems.
Posted: 2009-05-05
Category: Product Reviews
This article describes how the Watts Premier works, how the Chilipepper CP6000 pump works and what the differences are. Both systems are designed to deliver hot water to the fixtures quickly while saving water.
Posted: 2009-05-05
Category: Product Reviews
New homes should have efficient plumbing systems. Green plumbing layouts are not considered in most new home construction. Maybe its time we took a look at what can be done to optimize the plumbing system to conserve water and energy.
Posted: 2009-03-23
Category: Home Improvement
This is the story of how my partner and I came up with the idea for the hot water demand system, how we developed it, how we marketed it, and lost it. But the story continues as we develop a better system at a lower cost.
Posted: 2009-03-20
Category: Entrepreneurs
A recent test of a number of tankless or Instant water heaters was conducted by the Australian Government. This article discusses the test results, and provides some solutions to the water wastage problem.
Posted: 2009-03-19
Category: Home Improvement
Being green can be quite inconvenient. Saving water means low flow toilets, low flow water fixtures, and less greenery in the yard. These are all good proven methods of practicing water conservation, but sometimes human behavior can get in the way.
Posted: 2009-03-13
Category: Home Improvement
Many people find it annoying that they have to wait for their hot water to reach the fixture. If you water heater is a substantial distance from your fixture, you could have a very long wait. Here is why its slow and how to speed it up.
Posted: 2009-03-03
Category: Home Improvement
We all know that we should be conserving water for a wide variety of reasons. In some areas there are droughts occurring, in some areas water is just scarce to begin with. Demand type hot water systems are an excellent way to save water.
Posted: 2009-02-18
Category: Home Improvement
The story of how the Metlund hot water demand system was invented. The idea was conceived while driving to a Public Utilities Commission meeting in San Francisco. As a result untold millions of gallons of water have been saved. This is an invention success story.
Posted: 2009-02-16
Category: Entrepreneurs
Here we examine two hot water distribution systems that can save thousands of gallons of water each year for a typical family. How the Laing Autocirc1, and the Chilipepper CP6000 save water and what other benefits or problems come with the package.
Posted: 2009-02-14
Category: Home Improvement
There is always something new happening in the world of science. In fact, there are so many new scientific discoveries and inventions, that its virtually impossible to stay abreast of all the new information. Here are a few really cool new inventions that are under development.
Posted: 2009-02-14
Category: Science
If you are planning on purchasing a tankless water heater to save energy and have endless hot water, then you should read this article. You might have to make substantial changes to they way you use your hot water.
Posted: 2009-02-14
Category: Home Improvement
Demand hot water systems are designed to pump the hot water from your water heater to your fixtures without running any of that precious water down the drain at high speed so you get your hot water faster.
Posted: 2009-02-14
Category: Home Improvement
Hot water demand systems are specialized circulating systems for use when there is not already a hot water return line. They are systems designed to pump your hot water from your water heater to your fixtures fast without running water down the drain.
Posted: 2009-02-11
Category: Home Improvement
We review our second cruise on the Oosterdam, a vacation cruise to the Mexican Riviera, and we had a great time. We describe our shore excursions and provide our comments on the food and service.
Posted: 2009-02-09
Category: Cruises
Throughout history famous female inventors and mostly have contributed enormously to the world of invention. Women inventors are responsible for a wide variety of inventions that we all encounter in our daily lives, from the automatic dishwasher to life saving medical inventions.
Posted: 2009-02-09
Category: Entrepreneurs
The author, himself and inventor for over 30 years, describes some of the latest high-tech goings on. He discusses new technologies like x-ray vision, invisibility cloaking, and using your clothing to generate electricity for your cell phone and other gadgets.
Posted: 2009-02-08
Category: Technology
Tankless water heaters are promoted as being green in that they save energy. Well lets take a good look at tankless water heaters and figure out what the real story is. Like anything else, there are both pros and cons.
Posted: 2009-02-07
Category: Home Improvement
Tankless water heaters operate differently than standard tank type heaters. Some will find the differences to be trivial, and some will think they are significant. This article provides all the little details that will make your decision about buy one easier.
Posted: 2009-02-04
Category: Home Improvement
This fifty question free printable trivia quiz with answers can be used for whatever you wish. There are questions about everything from baseball to sports medicine. Feel free to print them out and use it for anything you want.
Posted: 2009-01-31
Category: Arts & Entertainment
A brief review of the cruise ship Sapphire Princess. We took a 12 day cruise to the orient, departing from Osaka Japan. The cruise ships made stops at Nagasaki, Vladivostock, Pusan, Dalian, Shanghai, and finished in Beijing. This is a review of the ship, but not the destinations.
Posted: 2009-01-27
Category: Cruises
Although few in number, women inventors have played a vital role in bringing creative new inventions to mankind. Women inventors have had to overcome many obstacles that male inventors have not had to face. This makes their storys all that more remarkable.
Posted: 2009-01-26
Category: Arts & Entertainment
A brief peek at some of the inventions I feel are some of the more important inventions of the 20th century. It's hard to decide which ones are the most important, there are so many, these three have all changed our lives dramatically.
Posted: 2009-01-25
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Test your science knowledge with this trivia quiz sheet. Over two dozen science trivia questions and answers. You can print it out and mark out the answers with a felt pen, or you can copy and past the questions into notepad or some other editor and print out just the questions. Use them for whatever you want.
Posted: 2009-01-24
Category: Arts & Entertainment
With all the fuss about the Obama Presidency, its time to take a look at some historical trivia. Here are a bunch of presidential trivia questions with the answers that you can use to entertain your friends and family, or use at a party or get together.
Posted: 2009-01-19
Category: Arts & Entertainment
We had a nice one-day visit to Acapulco on our cruise aboard Carnivals Spirit. We lucked out and found a great Guide who showed us around. There is a beautiful cathedral and no shortage of shopping in Acapulco, but we didnt find much else.
Posted: 2009-01-19
Category: Cruises
Foretelling the future is a difficult feat, but Im up to the challenge. There are several areas where I believe there will be significant future inventions that will dramatically affect our lives, just as the current inventions are doing now.
Posted: 2009-01-15
Category: Arts & Entertainment
There is not a one size fits all cruise line. Each of them has their strengths and weaknesses. It does not make one cruise line better than another, it just makes them different. This is our review of a Mexican Riviera cruise on the Carnival Spirit.
Posted: 2009-01-15
Category: Cruises
You dont need to spend a fortune remodeling your bath, just a few changes, a little bathroom dcor, and youre on your way to a beautiful bath that youll enjoy for years to come, without the expense of a remodel.
Posted: 2009-01-14
Category: Home Improvement
There is a wide ranging array of bath and shower accessories and equipment available for any bathroom imaginable. There are not just ordinary things like towel warmers and heated toilet seat cover, but even very high tech gadgets like environmental chambers.
Posted: 2009-01-12
Category: Home Improvement
Making a small bathroom look and seem larger is not difficult. This article describes various ways of making your bathroom seem larger, and other great ways of improving both the looks and function of your small bathroom.
Posted: 2009-01-11
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Modern bathroom accessories range from the mundane to the marvelous! There are always the good old towel warmers, digital bathroom scales, and toilet seat warmers, but there are some pretty amazing products that pamper like you wouldnt believe!
Posted: 2009-01-11
Category: Home Improvement
Printable bible trivia related questions. The bible related questions can be used for fun trivia quizzes. Print them out and use for your special occasions or even to keep the kids busy. Its a great family activity too!
Posted: 2009-01-09
Category: Arts & Entertainment
The author discusses what microcontrollers are and how they are used. The article examines a variety of applications and explores how these versatile little devices control the world around us.
Posted: 2009-01-06
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Although we had never cruised on Carnival before, a group of our cruise critic friends were going to go, so we signed up as well. We took the cruise ship Spirit on a Mexican Riviera 8 day cruise. This article is about our stop at the Las Hadas resort in Manzanillo.
Posted: 2009-01-01
Category: Cruises
Free online tools allow you to build professional quality printed circuit boards quickly and easily with just a few hours of practice. You download the free software, design your schematic, link it to the PCB software, and design the board. The click of a mouse gives you a quote and you can get the finished board for less than $100.00 and in 3 days.
Posted: 2008-12-31
Category: Entrepreneurs
A great many of the most important new scientific inventions deal with the very tiny. One such example are MEMS, devices as small as 1 micrometer in diameter. These new inventions impact our lives in very large ways.
Posted: 2008-12-30
Category: Technology
There are a host of reasons to write a business plan. If you an entrepreneur starting up a business for the first time you will find a business plan invaluable. If you are trying to raise money you cant get along with one. Here are some details you should know.
Posted: 2008-12-24
Category: Entrepreneurs
This article lays out some basic tools for use in SEO. You can do SEO without them, but your time is spent much more effectively if you use them. Especially the keyword too; in fact, the keyword tool is crucial for successful SEO.
Posted: 2008-12-24
Category: SEO
Title tags are one of the most important indicators to the major search engines of what your site is about. You need to carefully analyze what keyword phrases belong in your title tags. If you choose keywords that no one searches for, your site is useless.
Posted: 2008-12-23
Category: SEO
There are many benefits to faster hot water, including water conservation, energy conservation, and even cleaner dishes. Learn how to get faster hot water and experience the benefits yourself.
Posted: 2008-09-22
Category: Home Improvement
The benefits of instant hot water are many, including saving money and being environmentally responsible. But how does one get instant hot water? Thanks to some high tech gizmos its not hard and not expensive to get faster hot water.
Posted: 2008-09-15
Category: Home Improvement
My wife and I are avid cruisers, and she deftly uses the internet and her network of cruise friends to engineer some very enjoyable vacations. Well, here we go again; its a cruise to Acapulco with a great group of family and friends.
Posted: 2008-09-10
Category: Cruises
Think about how much water gets run down the drain while you wait for hot water to reach the fixture. Now think about the convenience of fast hot water without running any water down the drain. There are low cost solutions available to solve this serious problem.
Posted: 2008-09-09
Category: Home Improvement
By combining several forms of advertising on your site you can make some nice money, and invest in the future as well. One of the three prongs belongs to a new advertising program that has great potential for the future.
Posted: 2008-09-08
Category: Work At Home
There are inexpensive hot water delivery systems that can speed up your hot water and even save you time, water and money. These hot water on demand systems are examined in the article, and compared with hot water circulating systems.
Posted: 2008-09-02
Category: Home Improvement
After optimizing your site for your key words youve still got more work to do to get that traffic. You need to get links. There are lots of nearly identical and well optimized web pages. Inbound links make the difference.
Posted: 2008-09-01
Category: Site Promotion
Tons of free search engine traffic is what everyone wants. Here is how to get that traffic in simple easy to understand steps that you can take to improve your website. There are no magic tricks, just use some good old common sense, elbow grease, and time.
Posted: 2008-08-31
Category: SEO
