Hydroponic Garden

"Hydroponics - the process of growing plants in sand, gravel, or liquid, with added nutrients but without soil."

"The earliest published work on growing terrestrial plants without soil was the 1627 book Sylva Sylvarum by Francis Bacon, printed a year after his death"

Having a hydroponics garden is a great way to reduce the amount of money spent monthly on common house hold herbs. Using a few household items one can easily build their own garden to start growing the herb of their own desire. People use this method to save money and grow things such as lettuces, tomatoes, celery, spring onions and herbs.

Hydroponically grown foods are ideally better tasting and better for you because they are not exposed to any form of pesticide and it is harder for them to become exposed to air born disease. 

Creating your own system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBME3l29G6Q

More detailed information:
 http://www.hydroponics-simplified.com/hydroponic-plants.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroponics

Free Energy From the Sun?

Everyone has heard of the use of solar energy. We take in light daily and without it we could not possibly exist. Light is both a particle and a wave and travels in a spinning circular motion and it is the fastest thing known to man. 

Learning from our green friends, plants show us that taking in light can be used as an energy source. Undergoing photosynthesis a plant can convert light into glucose otherwise known as the plants energy. We can do a similar process with assistance of solar panel appliances. 

Through the use of a photo-voltaic cell we can transfer light energy into pure electrical energy from light striking a silicon semiconductor causes electrons to flow, creating electricity. Setting up these mechanisms are at first costly but tax refunds are also applicable because the government wants to increase the popularity of becoming environmentally friendly. 

When thinking about adding a mechanism like this to one's home one must first consider the up-front cost and compare it to the exponential savings over time. Overall if your home is in a location where sunlight is prevalent solar energy maybe an ideal candid for powering your home. 


http://global.kyocera.com/solarexpo/solar_power/mechanism.html

Incorporating Some Free Energy

Everyone can use some free energy. In the typical home one of the main costs is the upkeep of electrical and chemical energy. We pay the heat and electrical companies a large some of our wages to have access to power. With some start up capital, one could possibly create their own power sources using the environmental factors around them. Whether you live by a river or are using the power of wind we can create and harness different forms of energy. 

The use of hydro-power has been around for a long time now but it is only recent that people have been using micro-hydro power systems to fuel their homes. These micro-hydro power systems are expensive to initially set up but using the nearest river or creek and energy is readily available and overall cheaper in the long run. You even get payed for the excess energy you don't use and return to the grid. 

http://www.energysavingtrust.org.uk/Generating-energy/Choosing-a-renewable-technology/Hydroelectricity

Making Your Home More Green and Efficient!

It cant be helped that over-population is already running its course. Resources are depleting like sand running through an hour glass. Instead of consistently draining the planet of its precious materials, humans could be more innovative and create a bio- friendly home in which resources can be generated. 

One of the main resources we take for granted are trees. We symbiotically live with trees providing them with carbon dioxide, while they provide us with oxygen. Daily it can be seen that trees are being destroyed in order for us to build houses, malls, and coffee shops. Acting as a purifier for our air and main source of oxygen, as the amount of trees decrease our air quality overall decreases as well. 

In order to help combat the decrease in oxygen having a bio-friendly home can help. With the addition of any kind of desert plant life to your home oxygen levels will increase and CO2 will decrease due to CAM photosynthesis. 

" In a plant using full CAM, the stomata in the leaves remain shut during the day to reduce evapotranspiration, but open at night to collect carbon dioxide (CO₂). The CO₂ is stored as the four-carbon acid malate, and then used during photosynthesis during the day. The pre-collected CO₂ is concentrated around the enzyme RuBisCO, increasing photosynthetic efficiency." 

-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crassulacean_acid_metabolism