About a week ago I pulled the plug on my EVNow.org website. I started the site a few years ago with big dreams of it becoming the place to go for news on alternative energy and electric cars. Unfortuately, one guy can only do so much in a 24-hour day. So EVNow is one hobby that had to go.
On the bright side, GreatCove.com is back on its feet. Last spring I had replaced the home page of the site with a message about going out of business. At the time I had taken a position with the Fulton County Government. I am still happily employed there, but I have begun to do some web programming on the side. No, I am not doing repair and networking, so don’t rush to the phone to call me concerning your virus infested home computer.
Greg Reineke, who works at the Fulton County Conservation District, has announced an electronics collection event when you can drop off obsolete and unwanted electronic equipment. The main event is Saturday, March 21 at 610 E. North Street (beside the American Legion) in McConnellsburg, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can also drop off your equipment at the Conservation District on March 23 though 27, during office hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Click here to see a poster with all the details, including which items can be accepted.
Have some old computer equipment that still has value but is no longer useful to you? Hewlett Packard might be willing to buy it from you. Click here to see the whole story on CNET.
Until today, the coldest day on which I had cooked food using a solar oven was 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature today was in the upper 30s and the sky was completely clear, so I decided to try my luck. I used my best insulated box oven and placed inside it an oven thermometer and a black pan containing three eggs.
At 1 pm I checked the thermometer to see that it had reached 215 degrees, hot enough to cook just about anything with enough time. I became engrossed in other things until 3 pm at which time I checked the oven again. By this time, the sun had sank low enough in the sky that the box was in the shade and the temperature had fallen to 100 degrees. I took it inside and found the the eggs were completely “hard-boiled” and ready to make egg salad. Of course, there was actually no boiling involved because with a solar oven there is no advantage to including water with the eggs.
After a few years of wishing I could find the time to learn web programing, I am finally succeeding in that regard. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been tinkering with PHP programming.
My first successful PHP program is accessible to the world at www.evnow.org/calc. It is a calculator that can help you learn the cost of operating an electric device such as a light bulb. If you are still not using compact florescent light bulbs because they cost too much, use my calculator to find out how much those incandescent bulbs are costing you. You’ll see why nearly every bulb in our house is a CFL.
VentureBeat has compiled an interesting list of 30 electric car company start-ups. It includes both production electric cars and those that exist only in prototype or on paper. It is the most comprehensive list of electric cars I’ve seen. Click here to check it out.
About a week ago I pulled the plug on my EVNow.org website. I started the site a few years ago with big dreams of it becoming the place to go for news on alternative energy and electric cars. Unfortuately, one guy can only do so much in a 24-hour day. So EVNow is one hobby that had to go.
