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First, a Paypal button (which you can also find in the blog sidebar): But if you are able to express your appreciation monetarily, here are two options. All are welcome to read the blog-the site will always be open and free. Some people refuse to pay for what they can get for free. I can't stop, and I won't stop, and I hope you find that effort worth supporting. I am passionate about puzzles and I (mostly) adore the people who solve them-so many of my friends, and the thousands of you I've never met. I also hope I've introduced some of you to the Wider World of Crosswords, beyond the NYT. I hope that this site has made you laugh or taught you things or given you a feeling of shared joy, or anger, or failure, or even given you someone to yell at. My ridiculous opinionated voice yelling at you, cheerfully and angrily, about how much I love / hate crosswords. No amount of technical tinkering is gonna change the blog, which is essentially just my voice. Just the plain, internet-retro style of a blogger blog. Turns out people don't really want whistles and bells. I even got the process partly underway, but then when I let slip that I was considering it, feedback was brisk and clear: don't change. I actually considered redesigning the site earlier this year, making it slicker or fancier somehow. I hate ads in real life, so why would I subject you all to them. As I've said before, I have no interest in "monetizing" the blog in any way beyond simply asking for money once a year. It's at least as much work as my day job, and unlike my day job, the hours *kinda* suck-I typically solve and write between 10pm and midnight, or in the early hours of the morning, so that the blog can be up and ready for solvers to read with their breakfast or on the train or in a forest or wherever it is you people enjoy the internet. OK sometimes I take vacations and generous friends of mine sit in, but otherwise, I'm a non-stop blogging machine. OK, two days a month I pay young people to write it, but every other day, all me. It's early January and that means it's time for my annual pitch for financial contributions to the blog, during which I ask regular readers to consider what the blog is worth to them on an annual basis and give accordingly. the majority of my readership-those of you who are reading this on Tuesday, January 15). The concept of a negawatt could influence a behavioral change in consumers by encouraging them to think about the energy that they spend. Lovins felt an international behavioral change was necessary in order to decrease countries' dependence on excessive amounts of energy.
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The term was coined by the chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute and environmentalist Amory Lovins in 1985, within the article, "Saving Gigabucks with Negawatts," where he argued that utility customers don’t want kilowatt-hours of electricity they want energy services such as hot showers, cold beer, lit rooms, and spinning shafts, which can come more cheaply if electricity is used more efficiently. The energy saved is a direct result of energy conservation or increased energy efficiency. Negawatt power is a theoretical unit of power representing an amount of electrical power (measured in watts ) saved. Word of the Day: NEGAWATTS ( 31D: Units of power saved, in modern lingo). GROUNDS CREW (32A: Baseball field maintainers).PEEL OUT (24A: Leave quickly, as from a parking spot).
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THEME: COMPOST BIN (50A: Place for kitchen scraps, such as those starting 16-, 24-, 32- and 44-Across) - pretty self-explanatory