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Dock Bumpers - Heavy-Duty Protection for Your Dock
Dock bumpers belong to the basic and at the same time very essential docking equipment. They offer a cost-effective solution to prevent accidents and protect trucks, forklifts and other powered material handling equipment as well as buildings and walls. Dock bumpers are a simple, inexpensive, effective and neat-looking solution heavily relied upon in all kinds […]
Dock Levelers - Bridging Gaps for Your Business
Dock levelers are used to eliminate the gap between the dock and the truck bed by adjusting the height difference for smooth, safe loading and unloading operations. The loading dock is deemed the most dangerous section of a warehouse. A lot of accidents and injuries occur each year when a forklift runs off and falls […]
Palm Oil as a Source of Alternative Energy
Palm oil is currently the most commonly produced vegetable oil in the world. For many rural poor countries, particularly in Southeast Asia, income received from the production of palm oil is the sole source of income.
Palm oil is extremely versatile. While it is extremely high in saturated fats, it is almost solid at room temperature. […]
Why There was a Huge Increase in Foreclosed Properties in 2008
The increasing number of foreclosures is the current hot topic for the media and politicians. Stories of people losing their homes makes for compelling and interesting television. Promising to stop the rash of foreclosures should get a politician a lot of votes. However, neither the media or the politicians are really addressing the important issues […]
Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 - Help for Homeowners?
The Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 is currently a bill in congress aimed at helping homeowners avoid foreclosures that result from the recent problems in the home mortgage industry. As of this writing, there is a Senate version and a House of Representatives version.
To become law, one final version will have to be settled on […]
The Potential of Hydrogen Power for Energy Storage
With oil prices increasing and signs of climate change becoming ever more noticeable, there is much interest these days in alternative fuel sources. On example of such an alternative fuel is hydrogen.
What Experts Know About Hydrogen Power
You may think of hydrogen as a fuel source, like gasoline, but it is actually more of an energy […]
Solar Energy Conversion Gets a Major Upgrade
Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture.
Hybrid Solar Materials
Ohio State University chemists and their colleagues combined electrically conductive plastic with metals including molybdenum and titanium to […]
Halloween Recipes - Zombie Brain Pate
This is a recipe for a creamy seafood pate, or dip, which you can put on crackers, vegetables, or wedges of bread. You will need to get a brain mold, or some other kind of mold, to use to shape your pate. Makes a nice shrimp or crab flavored dip, which can be spooky as […]
Help America Support A Switch To Clean and Renewable Energy
Global warming is an urgent, but solvable problem. That is why we have joined the We Campaign, a powerful nonpartisan movement of concerned citizens that was founded by Nobel Prize Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. Read on to find out how easy and safe it would be to implement a renewable energy solution […]
5 Reasons to Abandon Incandescent Light Bulbs
The incandescent light bulb was invented in about 1802. Practical incandescent light bulbs were not invented until 1878 when tungsten was used for the filament. In many respects the technology hasn’t changed much after the initial refinements. First let me explain how an incandescent light bulb works.
How Incandescent Light Bulbs Work
Electricity goes through a thin […]
