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"Manual refractometers are cheaper than digitals and don't require batteries. By squeezing a drop of liquid from a piece of produce (with a garlic press if necessary) onto the viewing plate, you can observe the density of the plant's juice, which correlates with its nutritional content. This procedure is explained further at www.crossroads.ws. With the use of this tool, you will soon realize that the mineral content of our soils and thus the plants grown in them have been radically depleted. Our produce, including much that is grown organically, is lacking nutritional richness." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The plug-in hybrid electric vehicles are superhybrids with larger batteries. "This gives drivers the ability to run entirely on electric power at highway speeds for 20-plus miles. For long trips, the battery never runs down."29 In New York City, the big question, however, is how much legroom commuters expect from their taxis. Environmentalists in New York City were keenly interested in seeing some of the taxi fleet converted to hybrids. The hybrids approved for use, for now, however, had smaller foot and legroom than the other roomier fossil fuel cabs." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Big marine batteries on the deck powered the handmade winches. Instead of needing a crew of eight to twelve, he could work his net with Jason alone. "Be careful on this deck," Barlean said. Jason jumped up on the pontoon raft. I followed, carefully. Jason tied down the line on the cleat. Barlean jumped up on the raft. I'd been on boats all my life, but I'd never been on something like this. This was a small thirty-foot raft bobbing up and down in the middle of Puget Sound." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The following categories of waste may be deposited: drain cleaners, cleaning fluids, batteries, pharmaceuticals, photo chemicals, dry cleaning fluids, radiator flushings, wood strippers, oil-based paints, paint thinners, degreasers, asbestos, antifreeze, brake fluids, motor oil, transmission fluids, polishes, pesticides, aerosol insect sprays, rodent poisons, pool chemicals, no-pest strips, and car batteries. The town will not accept the following materials: radioactive or explosive materials, ammunition, dioxin, water-reactive materials, lithium batteries, tires, and gas cylinders." - H. Patricia Hynes, Earth Right (Get the book.)

"But in the 1980s the company got permission from the Allegheny County Health Department to restart two coke batteries in addition to ten already operating. The expansion came with a price. A number of accidents released tons of extra pollutants in the air, so much that for the first time in its history, people organized to oppose the plant. The world was becoming smarter about the alphabet soup of chemicals involved in coking. These include such known carcinogens as benzene, toluene, xylene, cadmium, arsenic and beta-Naphthylamine.This compound was once used to make dyes and rubber." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "If you worked in a factory where leaded fuels and paints and batteries were essential parts of industrial life, you couldn't escape lead. In 1966, the CalTech geologist Clair Patterson revealed this fallacy in Kehoe's work. Famed as the man who had come up with techniques that showed the earth was four and a half billion years old, Patterson invented many of the basic methods of geochemistry. Using rigorous laboratory tests, he found that bones from prehistoric humans had almost zero lead; it was not a natural" contaminant at all. Ethyl, in response, tried to get CalTech to fire Patterson." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"They also forbid the use of antibiotics and hormones and require animals and birds to be raised under conditions that appear more humane than those typical of commercial feedlots and batteries. These are good reasons to choose organic meats. So when I set out to look for organic beef, pork, and chicken in supermarkets, I thought these meats would be easy to find. Not so. If the stores sold any organic meats at all, they offered only a few kinds. Instead, I found meats labeled "natural." Natural?" - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"These could soon bring solar power into a new realm of technological applications—imagine running your digital camera on solar power instead of also having to power up with batteries. One of the drawbacks to photovoltaic cells that GE has been producing and selling is that they are only 20 percent efficient in terms of converting sunlight to power. That's because the silicon materials used have too many impurities and imperfections still, but the nanodiodes might counter these imperfections. To this end, GE has assigned fifty nanoscientists to work on the new technology." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The details of how this happens are somewhat complicated, but the following is a simplified explanation of how Protocel works, using an analogy to car batteries. One could say that all the cells of the human body are somewhat like little car batteries in the sense that they must manufacture and deliver energy throughout the cell so that the cell can perform its important functions. This process of producing and distributing energy in each cell is called "cell respiration." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Mercury is also present in a wide variety of everyday products, including cosmetics, dental fillings, fabric softeners, batteries, industrial instruments, inks used by printers and tattooists, latex, some medications, some paints, plastics, polishes, solvents, and wood preservatives. Mercury is a cumulative poison. There is no barrier that prohibits mercury from reaching the brain cells, and it is retained in the pain center of the brain and in the central nervous system. Its presence there can prevent both the normal entry of nutrients into the cells and the removal of wastes from the cells." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.) "Sources of lead exposure include lead-based paints, ceramic glazes, lead crystal dishes and glassware, leaded gasoline, lead-acid batteries used in automobiles, tobacco, liver, water, some domestic and imported wines, canned fruit (the lead from lead-soldered cans leaches out and is absorbed by fruits), garden vegetables (if grown in lead-contaminated soil), bone meal, and insecticides. Even such innocuous-seeming items as vinyl mini-blinds and porcelain-glazed sinks and bathtubs have been implicated in lead exposure." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"It confines tens of thousands of chickens in cages piled one on top of another in batteries infamous for accumulated feces, feathers, and the overpowering smell of ammonia from the hens' wastes. These conditions have attracted the attention of animal rights groups, some with "chicken libera-tionist" members who engage in guerrilla tactics to free chickens from their cages. Even without going that far, almost anything seems preferable to eating eggs produced in this fashion, and "cage free" and "sunlit barns and porches" sound particularly reassuring." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"You can be exposed to mercury in a number of ways, and you may not realize it. Because mercury can be airborne, you can inhale it unknowingly (airborne mercury originating in Africa has been measured in the southern United States). Symptoms of mercury poisoning can happen at any time, as it continues to accumulate. Research shows that over time, mercury can quietly attack your heart, nervous and immune systems, including your brain and psyche, and disrupt reproduction and sexual performance. One product I'd like to point out is Dr. Bruce Dooley's MercOut (www .mercout." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"I got so tired of driving out there and changing the marine batteries that I looked at a different way of doing things. I came up with an idea of a catamaran-style boat on pontoons." The ferry smacked up against the quay at Lummi Island. We drove our pickup truck onto Lummi Island, along Granger Highway to Legoe Bay. Now the wind blew hard against my shoulders, and I had a hard time standing while slipping on my rubber skins and boots. An oil tanker escorted by two tugs, a requirement ever since 9/11, steamed at sea through the narrow island corridors." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Like all animals, food animals excrete bacteria in their wastes, and these bacteria spread quickly under the crowded conditions in feedlots, batteries, and slaughterhouses. Bacteria also spread from one an- Meat will never be completely free of bacteria, but you have every right to wonder why producers are not doing a better job of keeping their meats free of harmful ones. imal to another during slaughter and when meat is cut and ground." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"This, too, is an excellent way to work off stress and recharge your mental batteries. Creating Healthy Work and Home Environments Given the increasing levels of environmental toxins in our world, it is important to take any steps necessary to ensure that you live and work in a toxin- and pollutant-free environment. This means ensuring that these environments provide both good-quality air and clean drinking water. Fortunately, it is usually possible to accomplish both of these goals quite easily." - Shari Lieberman, Alan Xenakis, Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss & Inflammation Naturally (Get the book.)

"Sleeping recharges our "batteries" and revitalizes the body and mind, yet too much of it makes us sluggish, depressed, and ill. Likewise, sunlight has healing properties unless we use it to burn holes into our skin. Why should any of these natural elements or processes cause us harm unless we abuse or overuse them?" - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "With "flat batteries," the physical engine is unable to rid itself of all the metabolic and cellular waste generated minute by minute, day after day, and year after year. As a result, much of the waste and its resulting toxins spread throughout the body. Wherever they occur in extremely high concentrations, they provoke a toxicity crisis. Such a crisis indicates that the body's resistance to disease (immunity) has dropped to a level of low efficiency. When the body is forced to hold on to too many toxins, it is also more prone to infection." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Fit individuals have more ATE at rest (well-charged batteries) and readily produce more ATE as needed (more efficient engines). Energy begets energy. It is easy to understand why couch potatoes and people in sedentary work gain weight, are fatigued, and/or struggle with mood. Feople who are generally low on ATE don't have the energy to get going or the motivation to do much, like a car battery that struggles to start. They typically require some kind of jump start, like the stress of necessity or a jolt of caffeine. When unfit people get in motion, their bodies cannot sustain energy output." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"Inorganic mercury is used in thermometers, thermostats, dental amalgam (fillings), batteries, barometers, skin-tightening creams, various pharmaceutical drugs (e.g. laxatives, diuretics, and antiseptics), and especially medicinal vaccines and pesticides. Inhalation of inorganic mercury vapors is the most common route of exposure, although ingestion, skin contact, and injection are also possible routes. Did You Know? • One out of every ten women of childbearing age has dangerously high concentrations of mercury "...within one tenth of potentially hazardous levels" in their bloodstream." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"It draws enough power from your solar panels to keep a stash of batteries charged up, so when the grid goes down, you can still run your home. jc An Off-the-grid Success Story mmm San Franciscan Brian McConnell retrofitted his three-bedroom home to generate as much of its power as possible. His goal was to reduce his home's footprint by 80-90 percent, and thanks to a mix of systems and basic energy conservation, he's coming very close to that goal." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Building with molecules, nano-factories could develop supercomputers smaller than a grain of rice, motors smaller than a cell, batteries more efficient than the energy-storage mechanisms of real butterflies. Rather than spending days of labor building each new design, a nanofactory could produce it directly from blueprints in minutes. In fact, a tabletop nanofactory could build hundreds or thousands of butterfly microplanes in parallel. All the different material properties required could be obtained by rearranging molecules." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "University of Michigan students then devised a whole series of self-powering prototypes based on a flexible skeleton of lights, batteries, and photovoltaics; the units are easy to wear or carry, and provide a range of power capacity. After five hours in the sun, the modular candles on the portable light unit, the Community Bag, can provide bright light to several people; the illumination can be extended by exchanging used lights with charged ones." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In most remote Nepalese villages, electricity from water power is even cheaper than buying batteries. Waterwheels have been used in Nepal for centuries to mill grain and dehull rice, just as the waterwheels of preindustrial Europe were. But now some of these wheels are being retrofitted with generators to provide electricity, too. In some places, entirely new generators are being installed." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"If power is supplied by a generator, it may not run long enough to charge a battery fully in a single day. Most batteries require twelve to sixteen hours for a full charge. For electronic flash you might want to consider using a 510-volt photo battery. Although they are bulky, a single battery can charge several thousand flashes and will do so with almost instant cycling, a tremendous advantage for field photography. Keep in mind that good batteries can be hard to find in most tropical American countries. The standard flashlight and penlight batteries they sell are cheap but almost worthless." - Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata, Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America (Get the book.)

"The neat, plastic-wrapped chilled meats that appear in grocery stores are far removed from the crowded, hot, smelly, and dangerous feedlots, confinement barns, batteries, and slaughterhouses from which they come. If you think too much about what is involved in the raising and killing of animals, you may find meat hard to eat. If you eat meat at all, you are happy to have someone else take care of its unsavory aspects and relieved that you do not have to watch. So we turn the dirty work of slaughter over to the meat companies and avert our eyes when this industry grows huge and monopolistic." - Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.)

"In most cases, these small batteries pass through the body uneventfully, but they can cause choking if aspirated and caustic burns, ulcers, and dangerous exposure to heavy metals if they leak. To prevent accidental ingestion, keep batteries away from small children. Do not discard batteries in trash cans when small children have access to them; dispose of them in an environmentally safe way. Ceramics and Crystal Most glazes on ceramic plates, cups, bowls, and pitchers contain lead, but when properly formulated and fired, the metal does not leach into food." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

"The firing rate of a neuron rises and falls in a cycle that enables it repeatedly to 'recharge its batteries'. And it turned out that the firing rates of cortical cells reacting to the same seen object had synchronized cycles, oscillating in concert at around 40 Hz. From a systems perspective such phase locking (to give it its technical name) makes very good sense, since it means that, further down the line, signals issuing from neurons that are responding to different aspects of the same object will reinforce each other, instead of cancelling each other out (see Fig. 17.2)." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"Children have been known to place the small button batteries used in watches, calculators, cameras, and hearing aids in their noses and ears or accidentally swallow them. These batteries are made of salts of various metals, including zinc, cadmium, mercury, silver, nickel, and lithium, usually covered with metal. They range in size from about half the size of a dime to slightly larger than a quarter. In most cases, these small batteries pass through the body uneventfully, but they can cause choking if aspirated and caustic burns, ulcers, and dangerous exposure to heavy metals if they leak." - Arthur C. Upton, M.D., Staying Healthy in a Risky Environment: The New York University Medical Center Family Guide (Get the book.)

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