Making use of natural Hot Springs to make electricity is not new. This particular site is new. The sites second well was completed on October 15 and is known as "well NHS-5". U.S. Geothermal initiated the development drilling at Neal Hot Springs located in eastern Oregon.

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"Further definition of the Neal Hot Springs geothermal resource is a significant part of our company's growth plan", said Daniel Kunz, President and CEO. "These drilling programs are expected to maintain our current project development schedule and help define a geothermal reservoir needed to construct a power plant that will deliver 22 megawatts of electricity".
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The Kiran provides up to 8 hours of bright light on a single day's charge using its highly-efficient LEDs that produce about five times more light than a kerosene lantern.

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This environmentally friendly parking lot at Dells Round Rock Texas headquarters will generate 130,000KWh of green electricity annually. This is great use of a parking lot and is something I have been actively researching for our school district.

An easy do-it-yourself project that should offer an immediate payoff in lower bills is to insulate your water heater. Particularly if your heater is in an unheated part of the house, a fitted water heater blanket can pay for itself quickly. Also insulate at least the first 6-10 feet of hot water supply pipe with pipe insulation, available at any hardware store.

Take matters into your own hands by checking for drafts and sealing them with caulk or putty. Expanding foam sealant can be used to fill larger areas that are protected from moisture and sunlight. Add weather stripping around the edge of doors and seal any cracks or gaps around windows, light fixtures and plumbing.

Leave shades and blinds open on sunny days, but close them at night to reduce the amount of heat lost through windows.

All of these steps add up to savings, comfort and environmental responsibility.

Many wine connoisseurs will have a hard time with this. If the aging is done in the barrels and the wine produced will be consumed within a year, the box should have equal quality wine arrive at the table as a bottle. To go a step further, the box does not allow air back into the container unless it is miss-handled. The airlock on a box wine allows the wine to last up to 6 weeks after the first glass is dispensed.

In a boxed wine, only about 5% of the distribution weight is the package, where in bottled wines 50% is the bottle. The carbon footprint to deliver the wine in bottles is very large. Also, there are chemicals used to process the glass bottles that can be avoided when we use the box.

The related link has a lot of information. The bottom line is that we will see more boxed wines as we learn to be more responsible with our impact on the environment.

Another good link to read: Yahoo Green on Boxed Wine