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33 Ways To Be Inspired With Sliced Wood. Are you ready to try your hand with sliced wood? Here are 33 inspirational ideas to get you going! Olive Manna That's My Letter Country Living via Pinterest Worth Interiors Camille Styles via Shelterness Found Paula Bertolina via Pinterest ModernRusticArt via Etsy postscripts via Etsy The Party Wagon Kristen Presta via Pinterest via Pinterest Seakettle Shabby Love Party Frosting. Two Upcycled Bird Feeders. December 13th, 2011 in member junk ShareThis 6 users recommend These are a couple of the latest upcycled bird feeders I've created. The first was a pain bending and molding the license plate into a square. Might be my first and last square license plate "anything". I'm really happy with the spoon covered bird perch on the side. Pattern or design used: My own design - Brian GadgetSponge.

Weekend DIY: 7 Projects With Magazines. Subscribe to Kanelstrand to get updates on more eco DIY projects. With time I tend to accumulate tens of magazines on my shelves and the thought of throwing the piles away makes me feel like a complete waster. So, you can imagine how glad I was to find these impressive projects to reuse old magazines. I hope you will find them equally useful! 1. Magazine stool 2. Let me know with a comment and I'll put you in a Google+ circle that is only for new blog notifications. Family Photo Wall Display. Unconsumption – Page 1. Autonomous robots to be used in keeping dust off solar panels in Israel’s biggest solar field, reports timesofisrael: Most solar energy farms are located in deserts, where there is plenty of sunlight — which solar panels, of course, need a lot of.

But the desert also has a lot of dust, which clogs up the photovoltaic components of the panels, making them less effective in collecting sunlight for conversion into energy. Panels have to be cleaned on a regular basis, but water in the desert tends to be expensive, if available at all — and the use of water to clean the panels raises the costs of production, making solar power too expensive to be considered anything more than a novelty….

Instead of using water to clean panels, Ecoppia’s robot cleaners are equipped with microfibers, with each robot assigned to a row of PV panels.