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Did you know your coffee maker may have a secret identity as a vampire? Not the blood sucking type of vampire -- the energy sucking type. A vampire load, also known as a phantom load, is energy that is being used by an electronic device electronics are in stand-by mode.
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Now that the days are finally warmer and daylight savings time has given us an extra hour of light in the evenings, you’ll be noticing the smell of grilled food in the air when you step outside in the evenings. It’s very difficult not to get the urge to grill and eat outdoors when that happens.
Trees provide paper for our offices, wood for our homes, fruit for our lunches and dinners, jobs for our country’s loggers, jungle gyms for our children, and shade from the sun on a sweltering day. But to my recent astonishment, some trees supply more than just oxygen, paper, and shade — they produce rubber.
