Creative Glass Carvings
Modern glass etch is a form of artistic expression that involves the intricate carving or engraving of glass to create detailed designs, patterns, or images. This specialized form of glass art requires skill, precision, and often the use of various tools to achieve the desired effects.
Feed-in Tariffs in 70 words or less: Government and power utility offers premium, long-term contracts to residential, commercial, and industrial citizens to generate power on-site. Rates are based on the cost of buying and installing various renewable energy systems, but only paid on actual power produced. Citizens purchase back grid power, as per usual, from utility at regular prices. Increase in cost is paid for with a small surcharge to all electricity ratepayers.
Congress' financial bailout included an increase and extension on tax credits for solar energy users, still mostly an option for the rich.
Earlier this year, Vicki Eckels put a state-of-the-art solar power system on her house in Fort Lauderdale for $43,000. ''I feel good because I'm a clean energy producer.'' The federal government will reward her by knocking off $2,000 from her 2008 taxes.
If she had waited until next year to install the system, her tax savings could have been $12,900, thanks to a provision hidden within the massive bailout Congress passed last week.