Archive for April, 2008
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Coenzyme Q10
A friend bought some blood pressure monitors for a kidney association, and they came with ‘free’ bottles of Blackmores CoQ10. According to the label CoQ10 is ‘Coenzyme Q10 . . . a nutrient that occurs naturally in every cell in the body, where it is involved with the production of cellular energy. High concentrations are […]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
My GPS
A friend asked recommendations for a no frills handheld GPS, for rural use rather than nivigation. I have a Garmin GPS60. It’s simple, rugged and very accurate. It has a USB computer connection, so you can easily upload and download data to the computer.
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Solar thermal power might solve all our problems
Those interested in solar thermal clean power might be interested in this article. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/14/solar_electric_thermal/ The raw numbers suggest it might have significant advantages over wind power in many parts of Australia, but it’s not cheap. Based on the Cloncurry model:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloncurry_solar_power_station To supply 10% of Australia’s power would take something like 150 sq km ofdesert and […]