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I put in two Aquia IIs 3 years ago and have nothing but praise for them. Without ever having put in a toilet before, it was a piece of cake. I disagree it's not a DIY job, just follow the directions as it doesn't go in like a normal toilet.

As for the 'streaking', the simple and effective trick is to sit back further on the seat than you might normally so the mess ends up in the water, not on the dry part of the bowl. Very rarely does it require an extra clean up flush.

Dual flush is great, worth the extra expense for sure.

I recently replaced my water heater and researched tankless and ended up going with a hybrid electric heat pump, the new GE Geospring to be exact. It is 1/4 the price of a gas tankless and is a DIY install (for me anyway). Furthermore, I did the cost analysis it beat gas tankless heaters ($200 a year vs $220 for gas tankless). Lastly, with a family of 4 we can run it in heat pump only mode which is the most efficient option and should cost even less than $200/year to run.

The Philips AmbientLED 60W equivalent is far and away the best LED I've seen. It's soft white (2700k) and is indistinguishable from an incandescent. Really the 'must-buy' when getting replacement bulbs at this point.

As mentioned above, it has dropped to $25 at HD and is a great buy. HD also has the 75W equivalent on their website as well, which is worth checking out. LED has arrived and is only going to get better.

First, it's great to see the LED light test articles appear to be an on-going series. It would be nice if the article also listed the color temp of the lights & CRI in the specs list.

Second, the control light isn't exactly an apples to apples comparison. A 23 watt CFL (about a 100 watt incandescent equivalent) is going to output something like 1600 lumens. Why compare the LED to that bulb, they would not be used in the same use-case. Since LED & CFL bulbs 'equivalent to' ratings are all over the map, it might be worth while to focus on the lumen output when comparing bulbs.

Go with blow in insulation if you don't need a lot of access to what is under the insulation after it's done. I've done both batts (fiberglass) and blown in (green fiber), both are easy to do.
However, batts have a bad rap amongst greenies because if you don't install it right, you can end up with gaps that leak air and compressed spots that don't insulate as well as they should due to conduction. Both problems are easy to accidentally do because you're cutting it, moving it, etc.
Blown-in, on the other hand, is simple. Shoot it in until it's the desired thickness. :)

I've been using an Apple TV 2 over wifi for Netflix streaming for a while and I've never had it need to buffer once. I'd follow other's comments and return it as it seemed defective.