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DIY Windmill Building





Having alternative energy sources for survival is probably on every preppers mind. Also with rising energy costs important to all home owners. Solar is expensive and a bit spotty as it relies on sunshine. With wind generators you are reliant on the wind and ordinarily there is more often still wind even when there isn’t sunshine. A windmill is a great back up or primary for an alternative source of power.
This is a great DIY project you can do in your own back yard and doesn’t cost a small fortune. Just because you are reliant on wind to generate power shouldn’t stop you from making one because there is always more wind than sun, especially in winter time. So check out the tutorial below:




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I turn Washing Machine Motor into 220v electric Generator - YouTube

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I turn Washing Machine Motor into 220v electric Generator

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DIY Portable Solar Generator




Solar power for a SHTF situation is going to be essential. These instructions are more of an overview for a simple system built with what was available. However, it is a good model for a simple Off Grid solar generator system that’s got a little bit of kick behind it. The builder used the power from this trailer to operate several small appliances and odd things that we don’t always have an power outlet available for like Christmas lighting.
This little generator can be attached to a bike for easier transportation the battery does give it more weight then you would want to carry. In an non-SHTF scenario think of how this could be used during football season for tailgating! Post SHTF the ideas are unnumbered! For the instructions read at the titled link below

DIY Portable Solar Generator

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DIY Water Filter Distiller

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We all worry about clean water after any disaster manmade or natural. Water is the essence of life. No matter which in which country, state, or region you reside in, water is going to be a priority find during a crisis. You may think ahh but there is a lake just down the road, or it rains all the time here, etc.. But during a disaster you won’t want to drink from any source without filtering it. No matter the crisis everything around you is more than likely become contaminated.
We should always be able to make our water safe and one way of doing it is to distill it. This DIY distiller could make all the difference. See it and how you can make one yourself at our featured blog from Ask a Prepper linked below

How to Make Your Own Distiller at Home To Filter And Desalinate Water

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Prepping – Georgia Shuts Down Chicken Production Statewide

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Things are not getting better. Food is getting shut down. Money is getting shut down. Vaccine tyranny is still here. Biden desperately needs a war with Russia. The fed is preparing to crank up the interest rates. Farmers cannot get fertilizer. Even Glenn Beck cannot figure out which way is up. Get prepared… you really should be fully stocked already… tick tock.

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How to buy a Cheap Old Truck..........and NOT get Ripped off

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How to get fresh water out of thin air

by: True Activist Posted on September 5, 2013

Image Credit: MITFog-harvesting system developed by MIT and Chilean researchers could provide potable water for the world’s driest regions.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In some of this planet’s driest regions, where rainfall is rare or even nonexistent, a few specialized plants and insects have devised ingenious strategies to provide themselves with the water necessary for life: They pull it right out of the air, from fog that drifts in from warm oceans nearby.
Now researchers at MIT, working in collaboration with colleagues in Chile, are seeking to mimic that trick on a much larger scale, potentially supplying significant quantities of clean, potable water in places where there are few alternatives.
Fog harvesting, as the technique is known, is not a new idea: Systems to make use of this airborne potable water already exist in at least 17 nations. But the new research shows that their efficiency in a mild fog condition can be improved by at least fivefold, making them far more feasible and practical than existing versions.
The new findings have just been published online by the journal Langmuir, a publication of the American Chemical Society, in a paper by MIT postdoc Kyoo-Chul Park PhD ’13, MIT alumnus Shreerang Chhatre PhD ’13, graduate student Siddarth Srinivasan, chemical engineering professor Robert Cohen, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley.
Fog-harvesting systems generally consist of a vertical mesh, sort of like an oversized tennis net. Key to efficient harvesting of the tiny airborne droplets of fog are three basic parameters, the researchers found: the size of the filaments in those nets, the size of the holes between those filaments, and the coating applied to the filaments.
Most existing systems turn out to be far from optimal, Park says. Made of woven polyolefin mesh — a kind of plastic that is easily available and inexpensive — they tend to have filaments and holes that are much too large. As a result, they may extract only about 2 percent of the water available in a mild fog condition, whereas the new research shows that a finer mesh could extract 10 percent or more, Park says. Multiple nets deployed one behind another could then extract even more, if so desired.
While some of the organisms that harvest fog do so using solid surfaces — such as the carapace of the Namib beetle, native to the Namib desert of southern Africa — permeable mesh structures are much more effective because the wind-blown fog droplets tend to be deflected around solid surfaces, Park says. Thus, a woven mesh structure resembling a window screen turns out to be most effective. With the right chemical coating, fog droplets that form on the screen then slide down to be collected at the bottom and are funneled into buckets or tanks.



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A comparison of the current standard fog-harvesting mesh material (top) and the new version designed by the MIT team (bottom), under identical conditions, demonstrates how much more rapidly water accumulates from the improved version. Video courtesy of the researchers.



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The researchers found that controlling the size and structure of the mesh and the physical and chemical composition of this coating was essential to increasing the fog-collecting efficiency. Detailed calculations and laboratory tests indicate that the best performance comes from a mesh made of stainless-steel filaments about three or four times the thickness of a human hair, and with a spacing of about twice that between fibers. In addition, the mesh is dip-coated, using a solution that decreases a characteristic called contact-angle hysteresis. This allows small droplets to more easily slide down into the collecting gutter as soon as they form, before the wind blows them off the surface and back into the fog stream.
While the systems currently deployed in the coastal mountains at the edge of the Atacama Desert tend to yield a few liters of drinking water per day for each square meter of mesh, the theoretical calculations show that newly designed systems operating in the strong winds and dense fogs that form along the Chilean coast at certain times of the year could yield up to 12 liters per day or more, the researchers say.
In collaboration with researchers at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, the MIT researchers have recently installed a variety of test screens made of different materials on hilltops in a semi-arid region north of Santiago, an area that sees very little rainfall, but which is regularly enshrouded in a strong windblown coastal fog called camanchaca rolling in from the Pacific Ocean. The team is currently carrying out a yearlong test to study the durability and water yield of different configurations.
Maria Tou ’14, an MIT undergraduate, worked with the team in Chile, helping to install instrumentation that can observe the fluid mechanics associated with the fog droplets as they collect, grow and coalesce on the meshes.
Large mesh structures, of hundreds of square meters each, could be set up relatively inexpensively; once in place, they cost virtually nothing to operate. They consume no energy, needing only an occasional brushing to remove particles of grit and bugs. “The operating cost is essentially zero,” McKinley says, because “nature has already done the hard work of evaporating the water, desalinating it and condensing the droplets. We just have to collect it.”
Chilean investigators have estimated that if just 4 percent of the water contained in the fog could be captured, that would be sufficient to meet all of the water needs of that nation’s four northernmost regions, encompassing the entire Atacama Desert area. And with the MIT-designed system, Park points out, 10 percent of the fog moisture in the air passing through the new fog collector system can potentially be captured.
The research was supported by a Samsung scholarship, the MIT-Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship and Development, MIT’s MISTI-Chile program, and the Xerox Foundation.
Credits:
http://web.mit.edu

How to get fresh water out of thin air - True Activist

Survival Food – 56 Long-Term Survival Foods and Supplies at the Grocery Store

Robert Richardson Food & Water, Food Self-Sufficiency, Preparedness: Preparing for Emergencies and Disasters 499

When disaster strikes, there’s a pretty good chance your local grocery stores are going to be stripped bare in a matter of hours. From panicked people trying to stock up on last-minute supplies to those who failed to prepare for even short-term disasters and now find themselves facing the prospect of starving, your local grocery store is going to look like a battleground in a post-apocalyptic movie.

Most grocery stores have a maximum 3 day supply of goods on hand before they run dry. That means even short-term disasters like hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes can cause supply chain problems that will quickly wipe out their inventory. Now throw in a long-term disaster that cuts off supplies for months, and you have a real recipe for disaster.
To be prepared to face an emergency situation where supply chains start to fail and food supplies are blocked, you need to invest in a long-term food supply. This supply should be made up of six months’ worth of emergency food that has a long shelf-life and is something that you already eat.
With the help of suggestions that have come in from our readers, we have compiled a list of the top food items and emergency supplies that you can buy at the grocery store. The list contains foods with a long shelf-life, items that have multiple uses, and supplies that are great for bartering.

Survival Foods that add flavor & comfort:

Comfort foods can be a huge morale booster during a stressful survival situation, something that needs to be kept in mind when starting to stockpile food. These four things can be stored for over 10 years, and are a great way to add a little bit of flavor to your cooking. If stored properly they will probably last indefinitely.

1. Salt
2. Sugar – Brown or White
3. Raw Honey
4. Alcohol – Whiskey, Vodka, etc…

Base cooking ingredients with a long shelf life:

The following categories of food make up the foundation of most recipes and are all things that store well.
Hard Grains: Stored properly hard grains have a shelf life of around 10 – 12 years.

1. Buckwheat
2. Dry Corn
3. Kamut
4. Hard Red Wheat
5. Soft White Wheat
6. Millet
7. Durum wheat
8. Spelt

Soft grains: These soft grains will last around 8 years at 70 degrees, sealed without oxygen.

1. Barley,
2. Oat Groats,
3. Quinoa
4. Rye

Beans: Sealed and kept away from oxygen the following beans can last for around 8 – 10 years.

1. Pinto Beans
2. Kidney Beans
3. Lentils
4. Lima Beans
5. Adzuki Beans
6. Garbanzo Beans
7. Mung Beans
8. Black Turtle Beans
9. Blackeye Beans

Flours and Mixes and Pastas: 5 – 8 years

1. All Purpose Flour
2. White Flour
3. Whole Wheat Flour
4. Cornmeal
5. Pasta
6. White Rice ( up to 10 years)

Oils:

1. Coconut oil – Coconut oil has one of the longest shelf lives of any kind of oil. It can last for over 2 years and is a great item to add to your survival food supply list.

Survival Foods that are great during short-term disasters:

The following items are great for short-term emergencies, and will stay fresh for a long period of time. During most disasters, you’re going to want to have food that requires very little cooking, or can be eaten without any preparation at all. Make sure some of your stockpile includes these types of food.
Other good survival foods: 2 – 5 years of shelf life

1. Canned Tuna
2. Canned Meats
3. Canned Vegetables & Fruits
4. Peanut Butter
5. Coffee
6. Tea
7. Ramen Noodles – not the greatest food in the world but they are very cheap so they made the survival food list.
8. Hard Candy
9. Powdered milk
10. Dried herbs and spices

Items that can be used for more than cooking:

1. Apple Cider Vinegar – Cleaning, cooking and has antibiotic properties
2. Baking Soda – Cleaning, cooking, etc…
3. Honey – Mentioned again for its antibiotic properties and wound healing.

Nonfood items to stock up on at the grocery store:

1. Bic Lighters
2. Toilet Paper
3. Soaps
4. Bottled Water
5. Vitamins
6. Medicines
7. Bandages
8. Peroxide
9. Lighter fluid
10. Canning Supplies
11. Charcoal

More Emergency Food Resources

While we always advise the DIY approach to stockpiling food, this way you have the things that you would normally cook and eat and can then rotate them in and out of your normal life, there are some circumstances where commercially made survival food supplies might make sense. Here are some of the top emergency survival foods that can help you quickly bulk up your emergency supplies.

• The Top Survival Food Supplies to stockpile for long-term survival situations.
• Emergency Food at Amazon

Survival Food - 56 Long-Term Survival Foods and Supplies at the Grocery Store (offgridsurvival.com)