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Energy: The Lowest Common Denominator (If energy becomes scarce in the future, your life may depend on what you know about it)

Energy can be found in many different forms. Our need for energy determines how fast the economy can grow or how much work each of us can do. The world would be much different without the many types of energy…
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A Potato Battery Can Light Up a Room For Over a Month DIY (System That can be Used to Provide rRooms With LED-Powered Lighting for as Long as 40 days)

As one of the most ubiquitous crops in the world, the potato is poised to feed the entire world. Along the way, scientists discovered that the popular staple of many people’s diets may also have potential to help power it…
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Homemade “Gallon Can” Wood Stove! – “Tin Can” Wood Stove – Easy DIY

Homemade "Gallon Can" Wood Stove!. DIY Tin Can Wood Stove. Made using only 2 cans! No special tools required. Easy DIY. Cost $5.00. only fuel needed is twigs, leaves and small sticks. works by pulling air in through holes drilled…
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How to Get 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 Make A Dakota Smokeless Fire Pit

Today we’ll be covering how to create a Dakota Smokeless Fire Pit. These smokeless fire pits are great for hiding your fire from enemies. They tend to keep a hotter fire, and a great at being virtually smoke free. This…
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Soapmaking Pt.2: Castile Soap:Rx for the Winter Skin Blues

By ultimatesurvivaltips.com Gnarly, Dude The drying ravages of winter are here and let’s face it, our skin can look and feel very much worse than the rest of the year…downright gnarly! Because some family members really liked the olive oil…
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Building with Earthbags: An Adventure in Root Cellar Construction

By Steve Nicolini We have finally completed our 4 years-and-running earthbags building project. We wanted a natural cold storage for all of the root crops we grow here in the western foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountain range. This is a…
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Make Your Own Hobo Stove From Scrap

A hobo stove is a style of improvised heat-producing and cooking device used in survival situations, by backpackers, hobos, tramps and homeless people. Hobo stoves can be functional to boil water for purification purposes during a power outage and in…
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Converting A Microwave Oven Into An EMP Resistant Enclosure

Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP as it is more commonly called, is a natural or manmade event causing over voltage conditions due to high power microwave electromagnetic radiation exposure in electrical and electronic equipment. This over voltage most commonly burns open…
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