Is Renewable Energy Really An Option For Me?

Since 1750, according to the smart historians, we have been relying on fossil fuels like coal and oil for our every need. As the years have gone by and as we have become smarter, we have invented new ways to use energy to make our lives easier. While this has been going on, we have [...]

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STOP PRESS: Merv is launching his new software!

Get ready for the launch of my new software within the next few days. I am very pleased and excited being able to bring this product to those of you that value your time, to the point where you really can manage time so as to be able to gain spare hours every day or [...]

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Do Your Bit For The Environment!

You do not have to move to a cabin in the mountains and live off the land if you are thinking about helping the environment. Have you noticed how environmental issues have become hot news, quite literally, these days? Quite simply, we can’t continue to be conspicuous with our consumption habits and we have to [...]

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How Can I Save Electricity At Home?

There’s no point in trying to brush the problem of excess energy use under the carpet any longer. Change begins at home and it begins with every one of us. If we own or rent a home and use all the creature comforts that we are used to, then we are responsible for using a [...]

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A Cool Way Of Keeping Warm

Perhaps my new audio will help with some  more of my readers, finding a part of their solution to the tremendous heating bills we are all expecting this winter, I do hope so, either way I have had some fun and personal benefit in my research into just this one aspect of finding out! Here’s [...]

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Saving Money Comes Back Into Fashion

It’s not as if saving money has ever been “out” of fashion, as such, but it is certainly en vogue these days. We used to be concerned about receiving those energy bills and would mutter under our breath as we tore open the envelope. Often we would make a mental note that we were going [...]

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Biodiesel-What is the gasket material please for engines converted to running on jatropha oil fuel?

Always use the engine manufacturers recommended gaskets, there is no deviation from this whatsoever when using jatropha based biodiesel or any other source of vegetable oil or animal fats biodiesel. Do make sure that with older vehicles, pre 1996, to check whether there may be rubber based materials used in joining the filler tubes and/or [...]

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Merv – You and your feet.

Merv – You and your feet Don’t you just love it when someone somewhere comes up with an idea and acts upon it! Well I certainly do, and I think that my blog here at www.mervrees.com is just the place to tell you about it! How often do you think about your feet? How often [...]

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Energy Savings- Facts and Rumours

Our Trash What should we do with our trash? Should we burn it or should we store it in a landfill? Two reasons why storing our trash in a landfill is a better solution, but the third solution is best: 1. Landfill waste creates methane, which could (eventually) be harnessed as an energy source. 2. [...]

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Energy Saving ? Looking at Ways to Save Energy in the Home

Wherever we go we’re made to feel guilty for using our cars, and some of us have started using alternative forms of transport in order to help reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that’s being pumped into our air. But did you know that more carbon dioxide, also known as a greenhouse gas, comes straight [...]

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