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  Hawkeye apple

  I enjoyed your article, but as an apple grower, I don't think your picture is of a Hawkeye apple.  You'll find a better picture at: http://www.silverstreamstudio.net/silo.html
  Basically, as described in the text, the Hawkey (aka Delicious) should be taller than it is wide and have five distinct bumps on the bottom.  The apple you show is distinctly wider than it is tall, more of a "MacInstosh" type.  Finally, the apple should be red with yellow stripes, and there are no stripes on the pictured apple.

  For all that, if I was going to pick one to eat, I'd take the one in your photo!On From Iowa's apple orchards, a delicious heirloom and a recipe for stuffing posted 1 year ago 3 Responses

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  Weight and volume of carbon

  Out of sight/out of mind?
  Here's another way to look at it - a "medium sized" power plant that produces 300 MW a year also produces close to 2 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, which would take a "square" balloon that was over half a mile on each side to hold it.On Umbra on calculating CO2 weight posted 1 year, 3 months ago 19 Responses

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  Chlorine: It's not just in the pool

  I am in the process of adding a whole house activated carbon filter to because of the chlorine that is added by the local water provider.  I moved into my house in Silver Spring, MD last summer after living over 20 years on well water, and I found that I could smell the chlorine in the air every time I took a shower or did laundry.  The chlorine level out of the tap is 2.5 ppm: both 'safe' (according to water standards) and also higher than I ever maintained in my swimming pool when I had one (no more than 1 ppm).
   On Umbra on chlorine posted 2 years, 8 months ago 13 Responses