How To Make A Swamp Cooler Using A Bucket

Swamp coolers (also known as evaporative coolers) work on the principle of a hot, dry summer day and cool water. Hot, dry air is passed through a membrane of flowing water. The resultant air is now filled with moisture. This

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3 Methods of Alternative Refrigeration

Having a way to refrigerate your food and “chill out” when the power goes out could be one thing to help ease the stress during a crisis. Here are three methods of alternative refrigeration you can use without electricity. Your

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Homemade DIY Firewood: How to Make Logs from Newspaper

If you ever find yourself desperately in need of some heat, whether it be to stay warm or to cook something, and you don’t have wood to burn, try using newspapers as fire logs instead. Or if you just want

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Electrical Wiring: How To Run Power Anywhere

Just came across this in-depth step-by-step tutorial on electrical wiring that shows you how to run power anywhere. This is most definitely something you should at least learn the basics so if you ever need to run power somewhere new,

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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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DIY Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT)

Here’s a great example of creating alternative power rather than relying on your local electric company. Because when the SHTF, there most likely won’t be any power as we know it now. Of course there’s solar power, but there’s also

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7 DIY Pop Can Solar Heaters

Passive solar air heating is considered the most cost-effective renewable energy utilizing the energy from the sun by capturing it with an absorbing medium. It is the only “free” heating source out there. The only downfall is it doesn’t work at

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Prepper Power: The Advantage of Hydroelectricity

It’s a fact that energy makes our lives far more comfortable and in some cases, even safer. Preppers who are able to have a reliable source of energy during and after an unexpected event, will fare much better than those

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