Tracking water on the move « The Cost of Energy

It’s EarhHOUR tonight.  (Sat March 27th at 8:30pm, local time). What are you doing with this time in the dark??? If it is publishable in public, let us know. What if you’re driving at 8:30???? You still have to turn your lights out, Right??? …!:-) Visit http://www.earthhour.org/ Check out the cool pix from years past. Expect cool pics from this year as we start down under and work the clock to you!…

The unintended consequences of helping out where help may not be needed: your fav garden birds. (Along the same line is humming birds, if you don’t keep the feeder water clean and safe, you might be endangering all those hummers you were trying to encourage.) Sustainability means doing the right thing, as well as making sure that you watch to see if things that you do, don’t do what you thought they were designed to….

Okay, we all know how biomagnification works. Pollutants including heavy metals such as mercury are absorbed at the bottom of the food chain, and then they are amplified all the way to the top of the food chain. at the top of the chain are such animals as sharks at sea and lions on land. In terms of mercury biomagnification (wikipedia) works like this. Organisms absorb mercury very efficiently, but it takes far longer to…

Here’s a great article in Clean Technica by  Zachary Shahan on the falling prices of solar (PV). The cost per watt is the key measure to follow. Basically a rule of thumb is that $3 per Watt installed should be profitable, before any tax credit considerations. In 2006 the cost was $3.50 per watt for the panels. Now prices have dropped below $0.50 and would be lower if there wasn’t a trade tiff going on with China.  Even…