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10/31/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Conserving water: Filter for power plants will allow them to reduce, reuse, recycle their demand for freshwater

Power plants are the country’s largest consumer of freshwater, with daily use coming to 500 billion gallons a day or 50 percent of the national freshwater use. Researchers from Albuquerque’s Sandia National Laboratories are working to change that with a filter — specifically, a filter for silica. According to ScienceDaily.com, the enormous freshwater consumption of […]

02/14/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

How to determine whether solar is a good investment for your home site

Solar energy is often touted as the energy source of tomorrow. We’ve been told that it’s clean, it’s safe, it’s renewable. These are all good reasons to consider investing in solar energy, especially if you have aspirations of living off the grid. But actually doing so is a whole other matter that needs a lot […]

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