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How To Get Free Emergency Power From A Phone Line

What do you do if the power is out and you need to charge your cell phone to make an emergency phone call? Don’t worry. There are plenty of potential power sources all around you. One of them is the

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How to Build a Bicycle Generator

Using a few easily accessible parts, you can make a bicycle generator that can power various electronic appliances, such as laptops and batteries! And while it may not seem very practical to sit on one of these for extended periods

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When The Lights Go Out

You awaken to a deafening silence; the bedside clock is blank, no hum of the air conditioner and no traffic noises. The silence, is unlike any you have ever heard before. Habit makes you reach for the coffee as you

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How to Make A Solar Powered Water Pump for Water Barrels

If you have a rain collecting water barrel system or planning on having one, you’re going to love this. This couple got tired of filling up buckets and carrying them all over, so they built a solar powered water pump

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26 Steps To Self Sufficiency

If you want to become more self sufficient, then you should start following these 26 steps to living a more self sufficient lifestyle. Start with one or two things and expand your skills from there. There’s a saying that goes,

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How to Restore a Wood Burning Stove

So you want to make sure you have the ability to cook without power should you lose power during a SHTF type of situation,  or you just want to go off the grid. And you want to pick yourself up

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2 Make-Shift Urban Survival Lights When the Electricity Goes Down

Your ability to improvise is one of the most important survival skills you can possess. It’s impossible to be perfectly prepared for an imperfect world. Sometimes you just have to go MacGyver and solve common problems by using the resources

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How To Build An Emergency Power System

Just came across this hands on “how-to” which will show you how to size and build your own emergency power system.  It covers all the soup to nuts including what you’ll want to power with the system, and then design

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DIY BioFuel Briquettes

Just came across a great step by step tutorial on how to make your own bio fuel briquettes by compressing paper pulp and sawdust into fuel bricks. Not only is it an alternative source of energy, but it’s also a

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Windenhol Device Harnesses Wind Power To Produce Electricity

Windenhol is a coined word, the combination of “mindenhol,” the Hungarian word for “everywhere,” and the English word “wind.”  It is a reference to the fact that everywhere on the planet there are windy places where small machines such as

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