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You have to admit that proposing the wood stove as a mainstream heating technology for the 21st Century hardly seems credible, but follow along and discover why this blast from the past has a rosy future ahead of it.

The original design of the wood stove dates back to the mid 18th Century and a certain Benjamin Franklin, who lived in the new and rapidly growing city of Philadelphia. The rate of development was such that there was soon a severe shortfall in firewood supplies which prompted him to invent a device he named the circulating stove.

This new stove was orders of magnitude more efficient than a conventional open fire, which meant quite simply that a lesser amount of wood was needed which in turn significantly eased the extra demand for this finite resource. The first design was soon improved with a front door, to seal and even better regulate the airflow, and it remained essentially unchanged for the next two hundred or so years.

By the time the 1970s rolled around, a familiar story resurfaced; the oil crises of that time limited the supply of oil which in turn impacted the many people who by this time relied on gas and oil to operate their heating systems. Many quite sensibly started to reconsider wood burners given the readily available and thus more affordable supply of fuel.

Greenhouses have been used in the past as a medium for hobbyists for their garden greenhouses but commercial greenhouses are becoming more and more prevalent as the world becomes more “green conscious” and energy efficient.

To explain, many universities naturally have their commercial greenhouses, for their agricultural studies. However, many elementary and pre-schools are also building greenhouses as this is a key factor in raising the generations to come. Not only are the children learning about growing and life, but they are also learning about our earth, importance of organic growing, eating habits and self worth.

As our land and our soil become more and more obsolete, another good reason to build a greenhouse is to plant a garden using hydroponics. Hydroponics is used to grow without the use of soil but something more available that can transport nutrients to the roots of the plants.

Recently, I have been reading about building acreage up, a system termed “eco building”. It is the process of building large high rises to use as greenhouses. By growing up and not out, we can use less land, and also generate crops without the dependency on other countries. One example of this is the tomato industry. South America dominants the growing of the tomato crop, however shipping and spoilage present problems. With Greenhouse structures going up and not out, we could capture some of the vegetable and industry back and regain some economic features for our own country. Also consider the world’s poor populations. If we can supply healthy vegetation to otherwise dry climates, we could feed a nation by building these greenhouse structures upward. And lastly, consider the oil crisis. Our development of corn and other types of fuel can only better our world.

With unemployment exceeding 10% and prospects for a new job much more scarce then they have been since the great depression, people are looking for alternatives to a traditional employment.

Lack of funds and lack of small business loans in the current economy make the possibility of owning one’s own business slim these days. But people still dream, even though it seems beyond current possibility. Even those with enough money to start a business back off in the current recession. Some just dropped out of the workforce entirely.

One can invest a large amount of money in inventory, leases of space, payroll for employees, licenses, etc., all start up costs for a small business before any return on the investment appears. Since 4 out of 5 new businesses fail in their first year due to lack of capitol or lack of experience of the owner, it’s a scary prospect.

Purchasing an already existing business may look more reliable, but this, too, can have risks. After all, why is the current owner selling the business? Without extensive investigation, one can sink a large amount of money into such a purchase and wind up with a declining company. Perhaps the owner is selling because he knows the current equipment will soon be obsolete. Perhaps his best salesman is leaving for another company. Perhaps his most lucrative contract expires soon without prospect of renewal. One cannot be certain in this case that he has all the data or that the data he has is the truth.

Much of the lore surrounding psychic phenomena can get quite far fetched if you are reading the wrong things and looking in questionable places for answers. Let’s take a look at the notion of a psychic force field, and see whether it has any basis in fact, or whether it exists strictly in the shallow waters of popular fiction.

Much of the early lab work done on psychics, back in the 1950’s and 1960’s dealt with the idea of a psychic being able to generate a “ring” of energy around themselves, purely through the power of their mental focus of conviction. The Soviet Union, both before and even during the cold war, was studying the possibility that a group of psychics might be able to construct a field of protection so wide and dense, that it would have military grade purposes!

Now – for those who believe in both science, and psychic phenomena, I’ve got both good, and bad news..:-) The Good news is, any objective evaluation of the tests done on psychic phenomena in a laboratory setting on a large scale basis have shown an incredible body of evidence to support that we do ABSOLUTELY posses amazing, life changing psychic skills as a human race. From remote viewing experiments done by the C.I.A, to the random number generator tests done at Princeton University, to the incredible body of work produced by the Rhine Institute and far, far beyond – there is a wealth of facts that support the notion that human beings have incredible, untapped psychic skills that can be DEVELOPED and practiced much like playing the piano, or a good jump shot on the basketball court can.