Posts by jiquay

In our renovations, we bought the American Standard FloWise Dual Flush toilet.  What a piece of crap that turned out to be!  It has two buttons on the tank lid, for a 3-litre or 6-litre flush.  The bowl is shaped like a...

Joejoe:Do you have voltage fluctuations?  CFLs don't like that.Oh, and they also don't like -30 degrees C, so I have to replace my outdoor ones with incandescents in a month, until the end of March.So here's a bulb that only does...

Yup.  When I was a kid, I had an electric steam engine.  A 750-watt heater boiled the water, and the little engine could go!  So in my 10-year-old mind, I ran a belt from the flywheel of the engine around a bicycle dynamo,...

Ethanol - what is the environmental impact of ethanol, or taking our food crops and turning theme into gasoline?  How much energy is used in the production of it?  This is another side of the Green debate that I think is...

To jgroves:  The incandescent bulb made in Ohio  was also shipped by the crate hundreds of kilometres, but not tens of thousands.  My first-purchased CFL bulb was 1991, and it is in its' fifth address and still going...

Enjoigreen - I am mid-40s, not an old geezer.  (Okay, I admit I wear bifocals and I have to make a trip across the hall at 3 a.m.)  My point is that the environazis are telling us how much better the CFL is, whereas they are...

Replies to the above:Shipped from China:  Russ, how much pollution is involved in truck or train across China, ship across the Pacific, truck or train across North America to my local store?  The CFL has a carbon footprint...

I made a solar water heater a few years ago, dirt cheap and it worked great.  A box 2' x 4' was built out of 2x6s.  In that, a piece of copper flashing was soldered to a grid of copper pipe.  The whole thing was covered by...

Hey, I can cover this list and Jeff Foxworthy at the same time:I routinely shut down my pickup truck 100 metres from the red light and let 'er coast in.A friend of mine is full-on vegan.  Her parents came to stay for a week. ...

Anyone who hasn't tasted a homegrown heritage tomato cannot answer to this question.  Years ago, someone in the grocery industry decided that the only tomatoes to sell are round and red and the size of baseballs.  For two...