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Carol Newby's search for bags of wood pellets to fuel the family pellet stove took her on a tour of Southern New Hampshire last week, with little success. "We usually get them at the local Agway," she said, "but they were in short supply and what they had was committed to customers who'd made pre-buys." She was able to get a few bags at the Lowe's in Epping, but when she went back, they were out. After coming up empty at tractor supply stores in Epping and Hooksett, she tried a nearby Home Depot, which also had no pellets to...

Good day, fellow FReepers. I've come to the single best source of information/recommendations online....especially for advice on anything gun-related. Short version: I'm going to purchase an air rifle (aka "pellet gun"). Darned squirrels here have simply gotten out of hand, and it's time to take 'em out. Heaven knows I've tried everything else; little vandals simply don't take a hint. I've done a fair amount of research and, so far, I seem to have settled upon the Benjamin Marauder. Pricey, but reviews of this gun are stellar. Here are my questions, since I've never owned an air rifle: 1. What...

There is of course no ONE way and no ONE solution to using less energy. I invite you to send me your stories about what you are doing. Here is Tom’s. What is new here is Tom’s choice of a Pellet Boiler. Something like this will be used as an experiment in the French School on PEI. So keeping up with Tom is a good foretaste of how our schools might be heated. It’s also not a system seen here on PEI yet for residential and it will be great to follow Tom and Gail over the winter and see...

WEST SPRINGFIELD - Pellet stoves didn't use to be hot sellers in July when the temperatures were pushing 90 degrees and homeowners thoughts ran more to pools and air conditioners. "You never sold a stove this time of year," said Russell I. Pomeroy, owner of Pomeroy Lumber Co. in North Hatfield. "But, now, you can't afford not to have one." With the price of home heating oil up to $4.71 per gallon compared with $2.54 a gallon a year ago and the price of propane is at $3.12 a gallon compared with $2.31 a gallon a year ago, homeowners are...

Nick Sylvester is a father of two small children who uses wood pellets to heat his home. "I am a fan of the pellets, I don't have the time to stoke," Sylvester said. "I want a thermostat and be able to walk away. There is no overheating, or it shuts down." Sylvester is also the product manager for Superior Hearth, Spas & Leisure with stores in Southington and Avon. With home heating oil expected to reach $4.75 to $5 per gallon, homeowners are flocking to get a closer look at fireplace inserts, pellet and wood burning stoves to heat their...

Chicken Pellet Jews © litton51@hotmail.com Those who took college psychology read about the experiment in which a chicken could be trained to peck at a certain lever if it had learned that this would deliver a food pellet. Carneys use this trick to make a chicken “win” at tic-tac-toe playing with the marks. The Democrat Party has perfected this using Jews and self-congratulation in the place of chickens and grain pellets. Nowhere is this more clearly seen than in the support of Barack Obama for president by my fellow American Jews. Despite a career glaringly embracing anti-Semitism and supporting those...

A new patented Tornado Generator(TM) accelerates compressed air to supersonic speeds in a closed cyclonic chamber where the air is powerful enough to almost instantly grind, flash desiccate and atomize solid and liquid wastes and other materials into micron sized powders. The Tornado Generator(TM) has no internal moving parts and is powered by compressed air. Needing only an appropriately sized generator and compressor, processing with the Tornado Generator(TM) is very robust and is capable of field operation. The technology can cost-effectively and rapidly process a very broad array of wastes including agricultural wastes, septic wastes, municipal solid wastes, and construction...

Today is the American Cancer Society's 28th Great American Smokeout. The event is certainly a smoke-out -- clean air laws kick smokers outdoors for their nicotine fixes. But is it really ''great''? No! Because the event suggests a wrongheaded option: Quit tobacco or die. The reality is that for the 400,000 American smokers who die each year, total abstinence was impossible and entirely unnecessary. Medical research shows that you can achieve almost all of the health benefits of quitting smoking without quitting tobacco. Nicotine, while powerfully addictive, is about as safe as caffeine, another widely consumed addictive drug. It's tobacco...

A man in Sicily in Italy asked a friend to shoot him in the groin in the hope of making his ex-girlfriend feel sorry for him, police said. Police in the central Sicilian city of Piazza Armerina said they became suspicious when the 27-year-old went to hospital with wounds from a hunting rifle's pellets in the groin area. At first he said the wounds had been caused in a hunting accident, but later admitted he had asked a 16-year-old friend to shoot him in an attempt to win back the affection of his girlfriend, who had apparently left him because...