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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Plan, Design, and Develop your Own Off-Grid Energy System

And when I say energy SYSTEM I am referring to it in the same sense that we in the science community refer to any "system". That is, an organized unified or directed set of actions or functions designed to accomplish a defined task .

A comprehensive DIY energy system in a grid-down scenario is do-able....of course you want to start with plenty of research to understand what your projected needs are likely to be. Research into the available technologies and how they may apply to your needs will help to define the system you should have. This method is one way to do it.

First you should start with a really strong durable diesel motor like a Lister Diesel -

http://www.vidhataindia.com/lister.htmhttp://www.powercubes.com/listers_1.html

its also simple to buy reconditioned Lister diesels on Ebay......These motors have the added capability of being able to run, with some modifications; on ethanol...or as I like to phrase it - homemade alcohol fuel...so we then need to make our own alcohol....luckily again - others have invented the wheel and reinventing it is a waste of time and money.

http://journeytoforever.org/ethanol_still.html

OR...maybe you want to develop an alternate bio-diesel...

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_make.html

http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_mike.html

THEN - we put the motor onto a small trailer, or a wheeled cart, so that it can moved around and be used to hookup to and run shop motors such as saws, lathes, or other heavy equipment by using a belt drive system...we could even throw it into a cart to power
and drive around the property....

Then it is a simple matter to also take the motor and connect it via a belt drive to a PTO generator....to produce electricity....

http://www.generatorsatoz.com/1179766164-1.html?___store=generators&___store=generators http://www.generatorsatoz.com/1179766164-1.html?___store=generators&___store=generators

Sunday, March 25, 2012

The Solo Stove

Premium Compact Wood Burning Backpacking Stove

The Solo Stove is the ultimate backpacking stove - a lightweight, compact, efficient eco-friendly backpacking stove that will last you a lifetime.

The Solo Stove is a natural convection inverted downgas gasifer stove that incorporates a secondary combustion for a more efficient and cleaner burn. The bottom vents allow air to enter and flow up the bottom of the grate to feed the primary combustion, a top down smolder. In addition, air entering in from the bottom vents heats up within the inner wall and rises up and out the top firebox vents causing a secondary combustion at the top of the stove. The Solo Stove doesn't just burn wood. It actually cooks the smoke out of the wood and then burns the smoke not once, but twice! This technique makes for a cleaner burn which means less smoke and also allows the stove to burn more efficiently which means it requires less fuel than regular wood stoves.

We're especially excited about how little of an impact the Solo Stove has on the environment. It's easy to use yet extremely functional. At only 9 oz, this stove is portable and light weight and because it uses bio-fuel (twigs, wood, seeds etc.), you no longer need to buy and carry around disposable canisters of gas fuel. With the Solo Stove, as long as you have wood you'll be all set to cook.

The Solo Stove was built for serious backpackers, survivalists, emergency disaster kits and campers alike and when used properly, your Solo Stove will last you a lifetime!

5 Reasons to Love the Solo Stove

1. Lightweight - At just 9 ounces, this stove has minimal impact on the weight of your backpack. No heavy, bulky fuel canisters are needed.

2. Environmentally Friendly - No fuel canisters, no chemical emissions, no batteries, no burnt ground = smaller carbon footprint. (editors note: this is less than NO reason to buy anything - who gives a shit - it'll save your ass and that's what counts)

3. Unlimited Fuel Sources - Cook a meal using the twigs you collect on your hike. Say goodbye to heavy, costly, polluting petrol fuels.

4. Built Tough - Made with hardened 304 stainless steel, the Solo Stove is meant for rugged backpacking and camping.

5. Affordable- One Solo Stove will save you from spending hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars on canister fuel. This backpacking stove will literally pay for itself.
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Our Mission

I am not bound to please thee with my answers.
William Shakespeare

We have been following this path (active prepping) since the early 1990's. In our case this includes military training, weapons training, hunting, fishing, tracking, advanced martial arts training in open hand CQB and hand weapons, orienteering, outdoors skills, and other less obvious but important skills. Your training and skills should, as much as possible, always be seen as tools that need to be improved. You never know everything and you can always forget what you know.

This site is dedicated not just to survival, but to the people who choose to live, with dignity as sovereign beings. We see too many people who focus entirely too much energy in pleasing themselves with shallow pursuits. Sacrificing their own freedom, and independence.

I believe we can all be sovereign citizens - by living life for ourselves; and not for the sake of others, or a group, or a collective state. Too many people spend too much of their time, money and lives concerned with what others think of them, and trying to gain the esteem of strangers. This is dangerous and not only effects how they spend the bulk of their money and their life's productivity, but even how they vote and how they view governance.

This "lifepath" I just described, which I call "living life for others", (Ayn Rand called it, "second hand living"), impacts the choices many people make about the cars they drive, the houses they own, even the clothes they wear. In its most essential form, it is an unthinking compulsion, or need to impress other people. The cold fact is other people, especially strangers - do not think about, or care at all, what you drive, what you wear, or what sort of house you live in; and even if they did, is it not somewhat insane to live life this way.

This false life path of "living to impress others" or "maintaining appearances" is a central ingredient of collectivist governance, and religious power schemes. It is how organizations like governments and religions control people. This primary tool of control has been used by countless entities: organized religion; and later by governments....i.e., leninism, marxism, socialism, facism whatever you may call it. They and all other collectivist forms of control use a few simple but effective mechanisms to control people; the desire to "belong", and....altruism.

Like Spock in Star Trek - the proponents of collectivism believe "the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few, or the one".

But this is a false and dangerous lie....for who determines what "need" is, and how exactly is the "many" determined?

By this vague but noble sounding principle two people....maybe your neighbors.....should be allowed to get together and "vote" to steal your belongings; your food, maybe your house, maybe your children......or even your life.

Why NOT - don't their needs outweigh yours?

The right answer, of course - is NO. America was, historically, the only form of government EVER founded on the principle that an INDIVIDUAL'S needs are paramount; and that together we all make up a society of individuals and that a proper governments central responsibility is to protect the INDIVIDUAL rights of its citizens.

Collectivism is a corrupt ideology by which people are legally allowed to steal the property, and productivity of an individual, any individual. They are justified by a vague undefined notion of the "needs" of some group or collective. Which can never be satisfied because "NEED" is always great according to someone.

Modern collectivism also has another benefit to its followers - it's phony altruism provides a twisted path to easy nobility. This un-earned nobility is often driven by the need to impress others with your apparent "compassion".

The answer to this is simple - Live life for yourself. Make choices for yourself - based on the way YOU want to live, and the person YOU want to be.

Do not concern yourselves with what others do, and how they choose to live. Learn to be at peace with your choices, and find yourself and true contentment.
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