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[babymotard]

I love all these ideas! Has anyone ever purchased a Solar Stik Generator online? I've been searching for personal reviews out there. Seems like it would be a great investment. It's military grade and supposedly built to last.

[Green Thumb]

I just saw this on the biodegradable plastic that I use as a garbage bag. The 5Rs.

I’m only familiar of the 3Rs = Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

The other 2Rs are RETHINK and REPLANT.

Rethink that’s what we are all doing here, finding as many ways as we can to contribute for the good of the environment and dropping all the bad practices that harms it. Just when we thought this one is fine, surprisingly we come up with another better idea.

Replant. Needless to say, planting should be an undying course of action. We shouldn’t wait for another tree to be cut or another harvest to be made to plant a new one especially when it takes just a few minutes to cut a tree and years to grow them.

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babymotard, on 07 May 2012 - 07:58 PM, said:

I love all these ideas! Has anyone ever purchased a Solar Stik Generator online? I've been searching for personal reviews out there. Seems like it would be a great investment. It's military grade and supposedly built to last.

Solar Stik Generator looks like a good idea, except for price and performance.  
. . . $3,900.- for a combined windmill and solar panels VS a few hundred for a generator and some gasoline.

Then the only times I have needed emergency power,
. . . is during ice storms that knock out power to most of the state for a few days.  
. . . During those times, there has been very little sun and
. . . ice covers everything, freezing and knocking down tree and limbs everywhere,
. . . blocking roads and knocking down power lines.
When that happens, I think a Solar Stick would be covered and frozen with ice also.
. . . Where as generators run in the dark and in-spite of icy winds.

I hate being negative about renewable energy,
. . . but for emergency purposes in cold climates,
. . . this doesn't seem practical.

Source: Ice-storms-hit-north-east-US

[Pat]

In our home we use the 3R's- recycle, reuse and reperpose again. We unplug lights when not in use, most of the lamps and computers are on power surgers so we turn them off at the end of their use.

We are also growing a garden.