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Get paid for using electric ? Interesting
Germany has spent $200 billion over the past two decades to promote cleaner sources of electricity. That enormous investment is now having an unexpected impact. Germany has spent $200 billion over the...
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time specific greetings...
Please accept ? with no obligation of any kind, whether oral or written, actual or potential, explicit or implicit ? our very best wishes for a non-culture-specific, environmentally-conscious,...
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Christmas Snake Oil anyone ?. (V expensive mains extension block).
Boredom has set in already, so it's time to check out the online sales, but for some reason I clicked on my HiFi choice bookmark by mistake and noticed this product :- "While the basic mains cables...
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TT Earth Electrode indoors?
Is there any reason not to have an earth rod indoors? TT system. I've got 2 earth rods outdoors, can I keep them and add a third indoors so there's less resistance? [george]
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Happy Midwinter Festival
To all! Even the ones in my killfile.
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OT question
Lies, Liars and Frauds...to put it precisely. Space "science" (laughable non-science) is the biggest bunch of contradictions ever. They claim authority, simply make an outlandish statement, never...
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OT: Toblerone Milk Chocolate Jumbo Bar 4.5kg
10p in Iceland 9918 If I was going to consume 24,000 Calories I can think of better things than Toblerone. Owain http://groceries.iceland.co.uk/toblerone-milk-chocolate-jumbo-bar-4-5kg/p/5
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SBR as door varnish?
SBR Sportsbook Review (website) SBR Styrene Butadiene Rubber SBR Sequencing Batch Reactor SBR Subaru SBR Spectral Band Replication (Coding Technologies) SBR Steel Belted Radius SBR Stone Brothers...
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Help - Alarm System Issues after Power Cut
Ok so we had a power cut about half an hour ago. Since then my alarm system has been unworkable. The system is a Texecom Veritas Excel and has been reliable for years. Initially when the power came...
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'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house
No it's not. ATF is. NT
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Indoor security, alarm or cameras?
If you go and look on the Ultimate Handyman Forums there is a sub-forum there populated be people who know all about alarms - you should be able to get some good advice there from people who know all...
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Clean Rubber
What is? "Foam rubber" is always polyurethane, AFAIK, which sounds more like a kind of plastic than a product of the rubber tree.
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[OT] Android question
I have 2 Samsung tablets. I would like them to be limited to one task only, namely, run a single (interactive) app that I have on them. Ideally, I would like the tablets to start with this app when...
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3/4" Bibcock output thread size ?
I have some 3/4" brass bibcocks on the way to me - these are the bigger version for a stand pipe (the more usual 1/2" ones are 1/2" BSP input and 3/4" BSP where the water comes out) Try as I may I...
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Anybody know what this hinge is called...
Same here.
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