Its hard not to fall in love with the Western Digital Live HD on first sight. Its wonderfully tiny, affordable, efficient, and capable. Despite common klunky navigation and limited features, if you need its features its a great solution.

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Residential electricity costs more in Connecticut than any other contiguous US state (only Hawaii’s is higher). As of August, 2009, the average retail cost of electricity to Connecticut residents was $.2038, which includes the actual cost of the kilowatt of electricity plus the delivery charges and fees. As far as I know, you are pretty [...]

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As I write this, the average price of a gallon of gas in the US is under $2/gallon (although you wouldn’t know it around here). That’s a 3-year low – less than half the price it was just 5 months ago, and even less expensive than during some periods of 2004! The skyrocketing cost of [...]

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I have been doing some research into alternative energy solutions lately, and I have come to my own conclusions about how we really need to address the energy and global warming crisis in the near term. The answer is neither unique nor sexy – its good ol conservation. Like a lot of people, I really [...]

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Earlier this week I posted about an idea I had which led to some research about living ‘off the grid’ via renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydro. My initial conclusions were that it was prohibitively expensive, and varied widely based on local natural resources, tax breaks, real estate costs, etc. Well, after [...]

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This weekend my best friend Bob was in town, and we were sitting around brainstorming business ideas. We tossed around the idea of building a development in a sunny place which generated its own electricity off-the-grid. Currently, a single home off-the-grid is so difficult to pull off that examples are rare and impractical. Folks living [...]

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