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		<title>Gamma Brain Waves And Meditative States</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 01:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brain wave research and many neuro-scientist thoughts do not agree as of yet or have a consensus opinion on gamma brainwaves and there exact measurement. A correlation between these gamma rays which can vary between 40 to 10 hertz and transcendental mental states is claimed by Tibetan Monks for example. Even though this meditative effect [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brain wave research and many neuro-scientist thoughts do not agree as of yet or have a consensus opinion on gamma brainwaves and there exact measurement. A correlation between these gamma rays which can vary between 40 to 10 hertz and transcendental mental states is claimed by Tibetan Monks for example. Even though this meditative effect is not clear, its role of intense focus while being weak and transient in normal brain activity is agreed on. The details of the mechanisms are beyond the scope of this article.</p>
<p>Meditation Brain Waves</p>
<p>Deep Meditation will exhibit brain wave frequencies through different states with the most common being <a href="http://brainwave-entrainment-review.com">alpha  brainwaves</a>. However there is increased activity in Gamma with extreme benefits showing in the left prefrontal cortex of the brain. What some refer as a persons Third Eye is – awakened-through meditation in the Theta state. This deep state of relaxation can sometimes be experienced by people undergoing a repetitive yet simple activity as painting or even cutting the lawn. Deep sleep again will allow everyone to experience delta brainwave frequency but there are professionals in the neurosciences who can access your level of unconscious through this state if induced by a brain wave generator in therapy.</p>
<p>Now that you understand a bit more about the various types of brain waves frequency that occur within the brain, you also need to realize that your brain doesn’t just show only one range at once. You brain has all of these frequencies going at one time, but usually one is dominating at the time. Depending on the engagement of your mind, the brainwaves that dominate can vary. Delta brainwaves dominate during deep sleep, while it is the Beta brainwaves that are dominating when your brain is highly engaged.</p>
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		<title>Cheaper Energy Sources With Residential Windmills</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 12:35:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up to now, there are still some communities who doesn&#8217;t have a decent electricity sources. There are also some areas wherein the people are paying too high electricity cost since due to the difficult set-up. However, there are also a few select community whose leaders have have wise to utilize the energy coming from nature [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Up to now, there are still some communities who doesn&#8217;t have a decent electricity sources. There are also some areas wherein the people are paying too high electricity cost since due to the difficult set-up. However, there are also a few select community whose leaders have have wise to utilize the energy coming from nature &#8211; the wind.</p>
<p>Indeed that in today&#8217;s era, there are already places with <a href="http://ecofriendlylifestyles.org/residential-windmills/">residential windmills</a>. Those area have been determined to have strong winds to give them enough electricity. In addition, having a residential windmill will be of great help in order to have cheaper energy sources.</p>
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		<title>How solar cells work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 12:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solar power electricity is save money. Even better, it is a tremendous help to the environment. Solar power electricity works when solar panels, or in other words photovoltaic (PV) cells also called solar cells, convert the sun&#8217;s energy into electricity. Solar panels are made up of many PV cells arranged in a grid pattern varying [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://klimanet.org">Solar power electricity</a> is save money. Even better, it is a tremendous help to the environment. Solar power electricity works when solar panels, or in other words photovoltaic (PV) cells also called solar cells, convert the sun&#8217;s energy into electricity. Solar panels are made up of many PV cells arranged in a grid pattern varying in size and number depending upon the wattage required for the panel. That is to say when you have a greater the quantity of solar cells in a solar panel and the better the quality of the solar cells, the more total electrical output the solar panel can produce. </p>
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		<title>The Way to Convert the Sun into Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 12:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In solar power electricity applications, the solar panels collect photons from the sun to generate energy. Electrical fields in the solar cells pull the free electrons in a directional current from which metal contacts in the solar cell can generate electricity.
The electrical current then travels along a cable. The length and size of the cable [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In <a href="http://klimanet.org">solar power electricity</a> applications, the solar panels collect photons from the sun to generate energy. Electrical fields in the solar cells pull the free electrons in a directional current from which metal contacts in the solar cell can generate electricity.</p>
<p>The electrical current then travels along a cable. The length and size of the cable is vital because there can be a loss of electricity if the cable is too small or thin. The lost electricity will be converted to heat, possibly to the point where the cabling cannot be used again. The cable connects the solar panels to a solar regulator or inverter.</p>
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		<title>Precious Metal: Rarity And High Economic Value</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A metal is considered &#8220;precious&#8221; if it is rare and is of high economic value. Under these two factors, nine metallic chemical elements qualify as precious metals. These are, in no particular order, gold, palladium, silver, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, platinum, osmium, and rhenium.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A metal is considered &#8220;precious&#8221; if it is rare and is of high economic value. Under these two factors, nine metallic chemical elements qualify as precious metals. These are, in no particular order, gold, palladium, silver, rhodium, iridium, ruthenium, platinum, osmium, and rhenium.</p>
<p>So that while the chemical element tellurium is considered one of the rarest element in the Earth&#8217;s crust (its mass abundance being the same as that of rhodium, iridium, and ruthenium), its estimated price is only less than 5 U.S. dollars per troy ounce, and, therefore, cannot be considered a precious metal. The same can be said of bismuth, which has a mass abundance half less than that of palladium, but with a price of only a little more than a tenth of tellurium&#8217;s price.</p>
<p>In terms of mass abundance, expressed in parts per billion (ppb), here&#8217;s how the nine precious metals are ranked (rare to rarest): 9th: silver (75 ppb); 8th: palladium (15 ppb); 7th: gold (4 ppb); 6th: osmium (1.5 ppb); 5th to 3rd: iridium, rhodium, and ruthenium (1 ppb); 2nd: rhenium (0.7 ppb); and 1st: platinum (0.003 ppb).</p>
<p>The ranking appears different when the estimated world market prices, per troy ounce, of these nine precious metals are considered (estimates as of January 2010):</p>
<p>1st: Rhodium &#8211; USD2,750</p>
<p>2nd: Platinum &#8211; USD1,555</p>
<p>3rd: Gold &#8211; USD1,131</p>
<p>4th: Palladium &#8211; USD424</p>
<p>5th: Iridium &#8211; USD408</p>
<p>6th: Osmium &#8211; USD380</p>
<p>7th: Rhenium &#8211; USD194</p>
<p>8th: Ruthenium &#8211; USD173</p>
<p>9th: Silver &#8211; USD18</p>
<p>Of the nine precious metals, gold and silver are the best known. Apart from being traditional coinage metals (along with copper), both gold and silver are also well known for their uses in jewelry and art; they likewise have certain industrial uses.</p>
<p>A third important factor that will qualify an element as a precious metal, as may be noted from the uses of gold and silver above, is that it should not be radioactive. Thus, the chemical elements actinium, polonium, and radium are not considered precious metals because they are highly radioactive.</p>
<p>Compared to most other elements, precious metals are chemically less reactive, have higher melting points, and are more ductile &#8211; properties that make them ideal for many commercial and industrial applications.</p>
<p>In earlier times, precious metals were mainly used as currency. Today, however, they are highly regarded as investment and industrial commodities. Four of them, in fact &#8211; silver, gold, platinum, and palladium -, are minted into coins or cast into ingots and traded on commodity markets. All four are assigned the ISO 4217 currency code.</p>
<p>Hence, the role of precious metals as investments, on top of their practical use, drives the demand for them. For thousands of years, precious metals have demanded prices that are much higher than those of common industrial metals, such as nickel (about 36 cents per troy ounce) and copper (about 11 cents per troy ounce). As a matter of fact, there have been significant increases in the prices of precious metals at the turn of the Twenty-First century. This has encouraged many enterprises to go into precious metal recycling.</p>
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		<title>Largest Gold Nuggets Discovered</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gold nuggets are naturally occurring large masses of native gold found in alluvial deposits. Often they are concentrated by watercourses and recovered by placer mining. In other instances, gold nuggets are found in piles of residue in sites where mining operations once took place.
Two gold nuggets are noted for being the largest masses of gold [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gold nuggets are naturally occurring large masses of native gold found in alluvial deposits. Often they are concentrated by watercourses and recovered by placer mining. In other instances, gold nuggets are found in piles of residue in sites where mining operations once took place.</p>
<p>Two gold nuggets are noted for being the largest masses of gold ever discovered. These are the &#8220;Welcome Stranger&#8221; and the &#8220;Hand of Faith&#8221;. Their respective &#8220;largest&#8221; titles, however, carry further qualifications.</p>
<p>The Welcome Stranger Gold Nugget:</p>
<p>The exact distinction given of this gold nugget is: &#8220;the largest alluvial gold nugget ever found&#8221;. It was discovered on February 5, 1869 at Moliagul, a small township in Victoria, Australia about 37 miles west of the city of Bendigo. The discoverers, John Deason and Richard Oates, found the nugget just a couple inches below the surface on a slope in a place that&#8217;s sometimes called Black Reef.</p>
<p>Records have the following details about the Welcome Stranger:</p>
<p>• Gross weight: 3,523.5 troy ounces (241.61 pounds)</p>
<p>• Trimmed weight: 2,520 troy ounces (172.8 pounds)</p>
<p>• Net weight: 2,315.5 troy ounces (158.78 pounds)</p>
<p>• Measurement: 2 feet (0.61 meter) x 1.02 feet (0.31 meter)</p>
<p>For their find, Deason and Oates were paid about £19,068 by the London Chartered Bank (located in the town of Dunolly in Victoria), where they took the nugget.</p>
<p>The Welcome Stranger no longer exists today, although the gold from it understandably still does. Also, there exist two replicas of the nugget. One is in possession of the descendants of John Deason, while the other is in the City Museum in Treasury Place, in Melbourne.</p>
<p>The Hand of Faith Gold Nugget:</p>
<p>This gold nugget actually carries two distinctions: &#8220;the largest gold nugget found by a metal detector&#8221; and &#8220;the largest gold nugget currently in existence&#8221;. It was discovered on September 26, 1980 somewhere near the small town of Kingower in Victoria, Australia.</p>
<p>The nugget&#8217;s discoverer, Kevin Hillier, was aided by a metal detector in this precious find. Hillier found the nugget in a vertical position just a foot below the surface.</p>
<p>The Hand of Faith weighs 874.82 troy ounces (60 pounds) and measures 1.54 feet (0.47 meter) x 0.66 feet (0.20 meter) x 0.30 feet (0.09 meter). The Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada currently houses the nugget. Its sale price was reportedly around 1 million U.S. dollars.</p>
<p>Gold nuggets actually are not composed of pure 24K gold. A safer estimate would be that they&#8217;re somewhere between 20K and 23K. Those found in Australia often have higher purity than the ones found in Alaska. The color of a nugget often provides a clue as to the purity of its gold content. Nuggets that have very rich deep orange/yellow color are sure to have higher gold content than pale ones.</p>
<p>Also, there is a system called &#8220;millesimal fineness&#8221; which is used to denote the purity of gold alloy (also of silver and platinum alloys) by parts per thousand of pure metal by mass in the alloy. A nugget containing 91.6% gold, for example, is denoted as &#8220;916 fine&#8221;. This fineness is equivalent to 22K.</p>
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		<title>Weddings With A Scientific Theme</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of ways in which a science theme can be incorporated into your wedding and here are a few ideas:-
Set the theme of the wedding with a reading by Dr. Seuss such as &#8220;Oh The Places You&#8217;ll Go&#8221;.
Bring some Chemistry into the equation with a selection of exciting cocktails. These can be given [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are lots of ways in which a science theme can be incorporated into your wedding and here are a few ideas:-</p>
<p>Set the theme of the wedding with a reading by Dr. Seuss such as &#8220;Oh The Places You&#8217;ll Go&#8221;.</p>
<p>Bring some Chemistry into the equation with a selection of exciting cocktails. These can be given to guests on arrival and can be aptly named with scientific names.</p>
<p>Present floral arrangements in test tubes. Test tubes are also a great idea for <a href="http://www.chloebeck.co.uk">wedding favours</a>; simply fill them with co-ordinating sweets.</p>
<p>Invite guests to play Science quizzes as an ice breaker.</p>
<p>If sci-fi is more your thing, use Star Trek as your inspiration with tables named after characters from the movie.</p>
<p>Use biology as your theme and have beautiful flowers all around your venue.  Carry the flower theme through place cards, napkin ties and table scatters.</p>
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		<title>The Types of Solar Energy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solar energy is present in different kinds. This is categorized according to the manner of conversion, as well as the type of energy that it gets converted into. It is important that you learn more about the types so that you can see how much energy you will need for your setup. The levels and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Solar energy is present in different kinds. This is categorized according to the manner of conversion, as well as the type of energy that it gets converted into. It is important that you learn more about the types so that you can see how much energy you will need for your setup. The levels and features will also differ based on the type. Knowing the categories will help you determine if it is wise to pick a certain system or not. Here is some more info.</p>
<p>The First Category</p>
<p>The first way to view solar energy will depend on how the energy is transformed into useful energy. There are a couple of types in this category &#8211; passive solar energy and active solar energy. Passive solar energy describes the harnessing of the energy of the sun without the need for mechanical devices. You can use windows that face south to give you natural light and additional heat for the home. There are many solar applications that a homeowner can rely on to get the most benefits out of passive solar energy like passive cooling, passive solar heating and daylighting.</p>
<p>Active solar energy involves the use of mechanical devices in collecting, storing and distributing solar energy inside the home. Pumps, for example, are used in active solar energy water heating systems to circulate the water through the system. There are plenty of solar applications that a homeowner can use to get the most out of active solar energy. Included are active solar space heating, active solar pool heating and active solar water heating. </p>
<p>According to Energy Type</p>
<p>The second means of viewing solar energy relies on the kind of energy that it converts into. There are 3 kinds that belong in this category namely photovoltaic solar power, solar thermal energy and concentrating solar power. </p>
<p>Active solar space heating is done to heat the air within the house. It uses mechanical tools and equipment like fans, pumps and blowers to help people gather, store and distribute the heat all over the home. The systems can be air-based or liquid-based. Liquid-based systems involve the use of large water tanks or thermal mass for the storage of heat. Distribution is managed through radiant slab systems, hot-water baseboards and central forced air systems. Air-based systems involve rock bins or thermal mass that hold the heated air for storing. The hot air is circulated within the home using blowers and ducts. </p>
<p>About the Energies</p>
<p>Solar thermal energy is the energy made by transforming solar energy into heat. There are plenty of solar applications that a homeowner can use to get the many benefits of solar thermal energy, such as solar space heating, solar pool heating, solar water heating and solar thermal cooling. Photovoltaic solar power is described as the energy made by converting solar power into electricity via photovoltaic solar cells. There are many solar applications that homeowners can take advantage of using photovoltaic power like solar electricity, photovoltaic solar lighting and photovoltaic cooling. Concentrating solar power or CSP is used to create solar power electricity. </p>
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