The Conscientious Family

Like Aquaman, it’s wave power! I apologize for not having an article yesterday, but here’s something worth noting for certain to make up for it! There’s been a new type of energy generator out on the market and it is spectacular. It literally uses the motions in bodies of water to power it’s generators. The ‘wave power’ is something that has been in the makings for a while, and by a while I mean 1890 was when the first attempt was made. The first experimental wave farm was opened in Portugal in 2008 and gets most of its power from the daytime tidal power by the arms connected to it’s floats turning the generators to create power. The wave heights are determined by the winds passing over the ocean, but the bigger the wave, the more the power that is created from these generators that is purely green energy. These are still experimental to say the least but they are looking more and more promising every revision they go through. I hope you find this article interesting to say th...

Photovoltaic Power Stations or More Commonly, Solar Farms There's something I really want to go over, and this in particular is about solar farms and their utility in our modern world. I'm going to start with the numbers first, then I'll explain them in laymen terms. With Photovoltaic power stations it costs about $1.8 billion to produce a plant that competes with common power plants. The typical coal power plant costs $1.5 billion without any environmental protections like capturing the carbon produced. It cost $2.6 billion for the coal plants that "carbon capture and storage", then it's $482 million for a natural gas power plant. The fossil fuel plants are definitely less expensive to say the least about them. The problem with them is that they are using limited resources and they are major producers of pollution. The ‘solar panel farms’ are a facility that takes a good amount of money, but they are using a resource that is unlimited and th...

Global warming: A New Look on an Old Topic I personally believe in global warming and the effects it has on our planet, hence why I’ve been writing about lowering your carbon footprint and other things of that sort. I also believe though that global warming is a process of this planet that we might be putting too much stock into. I’m sure that all of you are asking what I mean by this, but there are two words that I think relate with this perfectly: Ice Ages. According to professionals in the field, there have been at least five significant ice ages within the last 1 million years, not just one. In other words, the earth goes through these like they’re tissue paper and use them to balance out itself. If there are periods where the planet starts to get warm, then there’s going to be periods where the planet gets really cold too. It’s all just part of cycles, like the seasons being a micro cycle or living animals having their own cycles for life. Nature is obsessed with cy...

Bellabeat Leaf Urban Health Tracker: A Brief Review This is a guest article on this blog, I hope you enjoy it! :) There is something new on the market that needs a little more attention; Fitness trackers. These are able to do a number of things to help us keep track of a plethora of items like sleep, activity and stress levels to name a few. Some trackers are able to do more than just this though! One of these trackers is the Bellabeat Leaf Urban health tracker! It’s able to tracker your activity, sleep, meditation, stress and even your menstrual cycle with it’s Bellabeat app! On top of that it has a smart alarm and doesn’t require charging since it’s internal battery lasts 6-months! It can also track your breathing exercises if put in the right place! This fitness tracker transmits all the movement with it to your phone wirelessly and it worked perfectly with my iPhone SE, but on Amazon it boasts that it will work with iPhone 4s and up! It just needed to be connected to my iP...

Our Final Services And Alternative Ways to Rest in Peace As I mentioned previously in one of my articles, I recently experienced a loss in my family and a fantastic father figure when I never had one. I will truly miss an amazing man that I loved and sometimes hated in the same breath. He wanted just to be cremated, which actually sparked my interest in what some other alternatives to burials there might be. I knew right off the bat that there are regular burial and cremation, but then I started looking into them and there are funeral pyres which are still used to this day. There’s also a service that will put your ashes into the soil of a sapling so you can help a tree grow. I personally would want cremation and then my ashes put into the ocean out in California. I’ve always loved the sea and everything about it from the smell to the sounds and all the awesome things you can find at a beach that the tide washes in. I also wouldn’t mind the whole part of helping a tree...

To Become Self-Sufficient, There’s One Necessary Item I’ve been going on about becoming self-sufficient and making sure that everything you have in your house is safe for your family. I haven’t mentioned much on the best methods to reach that self-sufficient point yet though. One of the hands-down best ways to achieve this self-sufficiency is owning a greenhouse. A greenhouse will allow you to get your gardening going without having to worry about neighborhood animals coming in and getting to your harvest before you do. It also allows you to have your garden a bit before and after the actual gardening seasons started or ended. It protects all your yearly efforts and starts a personalized biome for them as well. I personally have been looking at the Abba Patio Walk-In greenhouse for myself and been pouring over it's reviewing online. I’ve seen a lot of them going for either the worst greenhouse possible or the best one yet. Then after going through about 30 of them, I n...

The best way to provide green energy on a daily basis With increasing concern about global warming and lessening your carbon footprint, there’s been more technological leaps and more answers to the ever-growing concerns. One answer lately has been a big one that’s receiving a lot of push. That particular item has been applied to multiple situations, such as at-home use and on-the-go. It has hundreds of products installed on a single field and has dozens of your neighbors using it in one way or another. This amazing versatile product is solar panels. They can be any size and are the perfect way to charge your electronics whether you’re on the go a lot or you want to take it up to the mountains with you on a hike! With some power banks, they actually have them installed on the power bank itself and allows you to just put it in a pocket of your backpack and charge it while you’re going on a hike or walking around the city to allow it to charge! I personally have a solar panel...