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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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How to Wipe Yourself Off the Grid

Editors Note: This is an interesting article I found on PCMag.com by Eric Griffith that has a lot of information you can use to protect your identity online and potentially go off the grid. I do have to take exception with one of

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14 Ways To Start A Fire Without Matches

There is a primal link between man and fire. Every man or woman should know how to start one. And you should know how to start a fire without matches. It’s an essential survival skill. You never know when you’ll

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How To Dehydrate Food Without Electricity

If you’ve been prepping for any amount of time, you know the importance of dehydrating foods for long term storage. And of course, drying foods with an electric dehydrator is simple. However, if the grid goes down, you will need

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How To Make A MacGyver Style Indestructible Maple Sugar Evaporator From A Filing Cabinet

Just when you think you saw it all, here comes this MacGyver style indestructible maple sugar evaporator made from a filing cabinet. In a post SHTF situation, this actually may come in handy though. Why? Because maple sugar and maple

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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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DIY Pop Can Solar Heating Panel

Here’s a great example of using the energy that is given to us for free combined with some old soda or beer cans and converting this energy into solar heat. What you see mounted on the side of this house

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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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