Garden aerators and mailboxes

A home is not a bare house. It normally have a garden, rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, plus you would need to have a mailbox for your friendly postman to stuff in your letters in. You wouldn't like the friendly postman to throw your mail on your doorstep would you? If you don't provide a mailbox to receive your letters, that is just what might happen.

A garden need to be maintained. One of the problem that a garden may face is soil compaction which leads to poor aeration of the soil. To overcome that problem, there are garden or lawn aerator. There are 2 main types. One uses spikes to punch holes in the soil. Another pulls out plugs of soil. The second type is called a core aerator. It remove cores of soil to allow air contact.

A home, as mentioned earlier, also needs mailboxes. With the ubiquitous Internet, getting one that suit your home and your budget is easy, as you can verify from the above link.

If your home has a garden, a good choice is to have self-standing Column Mailboxes or you may prefer other types of residential mailboxes which are mostly wall mounted mailboxes.

That would make your home complete, a well aerated garden where earthworm can live in comfort and keep your lawn healthy and a mailbox to receive your important correspondences.

However, a home with a family need sustenance. To sustain a family requires the bread winner to work at a job for a salary to take home, or to run a business. The site mailboxixchange also have a range of Commercial Mailboxes for his office or factory premises.

Economics: Viability of the Zero Energy Input Waterwheel Aerator

This is a reply to someone in a forum which can also be a discussion on the viability of this Zero Energy Input Waterwheel Aerator (click BACK button to get back to this page).

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the interest. The concept is good - use waste surplus energy for something useful, the problem is economics, the low price of electricity. As mentioned on the site, it can put 3.3 - 4kg of oxygen per annum per meter square of surface area. A plate has 2 sides, so per sq. meter of plate can get about 6.6-8kg of oxygen. This from the table for efficiency

Efficiency of Aeration System (click BACK button to get back to this page).

The least efficient uses 1.10 - 1.64kWh per kg oxygen
Cost of electricity depend on which country or location you are in. Some ideas may be obtained from

Basic Electricity Statistics (data for 2005 except where noted)

According to that site, cost to industry=5.13 US cent. That means the device can save max 40 US cent per annum. If we aim for cost recovery in 5 years, the device has to cost less than US2.00 per sq meter plate.

However, note that the cost of energy, especially petroleum and gas, is constantly increasing, and what may not be viable today may be viable in the future when the cost of energy (electricity) is sky high.

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