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How to Make Ethanol

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As the price of gasoline continues to rise, more people are searching for alternative fuel sources. With the advent of E85 Flex Fuel Vehicles, one option is to make your own ethanol. You will need a permit and a makeshift still before you start. Read on to learn more.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

things you'll need:

* Corn
* Alpha amylase
* Glucoamylase
* Grain mill
* Still
* Carbon
* Screen
* Zeolite
* Metal can
* Hydrometer
* Unleaded gasoline

1 Get a permit to legally produce ethanol from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. The permit is free if you are producing less than 10,000 gallons of alcohol annual.

2 Use the conversion calculator on The Ethanol Source website to calculate the measurements for ingredients based on the size of your boiler. For a 100 gallon boiler, you will need 350 lb. of grain, 40 gallons of water, 91 grams of alpha amylase. This will yield 18.5 gallons of ethanol.

3 Mill or pulverize the grain into a fine powder using a grain mill or hammer mill. Corn is the most popular choice, but soybeans, wheat and other grains work.

4 Convert the mixture to liquid by adding water and enzyme alpha amylase. Boil for 20 to 30 minutes to kill bacteria. Remove from heat and add glucoamylase, another enzyme.

5 Ferment the mixture by adding yeast. The result will be a beer or wine type fluid.

6 Separate the alcohol from the liquid by running it through a still.

7 Filter the ethanol with carbon to remove any surplus volatile organic compounds. Attach a tube filled with carbon to a funnel and pour the ethanol into the funnel.

8 Dry the ethanol by mixing it with Zeolite, an aluminum-silica substance that absorbs carbon dioxide and water. Allow it to sit in a can overnight. Run the dehydrated ethanol through a screen into another container.

9 Add unleaded gasoline to the pure ethanol (15 percent gasoline to 85 percent ethanol) to make E85. Use a hydrometer to confirm your ethanol is 200 proof. Any excess water will be filtered out and settle to the bottom when the gasoline is added.


Tips & Warnings

Remove the water from the Zeolite by boiling it on the grill or leaving in the sun to dry.

Check your owner's manual before running your E85 in your gas tank. It is only recommended for Flex Fuel Vehicles.


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How Wilderness Survival And Urban Survival Skills Fit Together
May 9, 2011 by David Morris


There are a lot of misconceptions about how wilderness survival, camping and urban survival do or do not fit together. The arguments range from saying that neither wilderness survival skills nor camping will help in an urban survival situation to saying that all you need for a long-term urban survival situation is your camping or survival gear. The truth lies somewhere in between.

No matter what your skill level and experience level, I have some great stuff for everyone this week.

In both wilderness and urban survival, the most important common factor that will determine success or failure is your mindset. The basics of survival are also common to wilderness and urban scenarios: shelter, water, fire and food first, and then medical needs and security. But there are some huge differences.
Solo Survival Vs. Group Survival

In wilderness-survival situations, it will normally be you and/or a small group of people surviving off of the land or off of what you have been able to carry in or pre-position. It is easy to frame a wilderness survival situation as you vs. the world. To be specific, it can be easy to identify with a character like John Rambo, who just wants to be left alone.

Often, wilderness survival situations happen because there is no one else around.

A long-term urban-survival situation is completely different in this respect. People will be all around you. After your ability to keep your mind under control, one of the biggest factors that will determine long-term survival is how well you are able to interact with other people. Can you make friends? Can you effectively exchange your goods and services with others? Can you do it so that you’ll get as good of a deal as possible and still be able to trade with that person again in the future? Have you acted in a way that will cause people to want to help you when you need help?
Four-legged Threats Vs. Two-legged Threats

Wilderness and urban threats are different, also. Unless you’re in an escape-and-evasion situation, your main threats in a wilderness situation will be weather, sustaining yourself, injury, sickness or infection and four-legged predators. A bright fire is a good thing in a wilderness situation, because it will help keep predators and bugs away.

In an urban-survival situation, the animals and predators you need to worry about have two legs rather than four. You will still have weather, sustaining yourself, injury and sickness or infection to contend with. But the fire that protects you from four-legged predators in a wilderness situation will attract two-legged predators, people who may want your supplies without giving anything in return.

Why am I stressing this point? Because if you identify yourself with the John Rambo character and can survive for weeks at a time alone in the wilderness, that’s great. There are several wilderness-survival skills that carry over to urban situations, but you might also want to focus on your interpersonal skills if you think you may need to survive long-term around other people.
“When TSHTF, I’m Going To Get Out Of Dodge And Head For The Hills”

And, as I’ve said before, many people’s plan for surviving if TSHTF is to pack up and head for whatever wilderness or small towns are within reach. It is a romantic notion, and it makes a possible disaster seem like it could actually be an improvement over current life, but it just is not realistic.

If a fraction of those people actually head for the hills, the hills are going to be hunted and fished clean in a matter of weeks and you’re still going to have to be skilled at dealing with other people. (As a note on the mass head-for-the-hills scenario, if it happens during a dry time of the year, it is safe to assume there will be mass wildfires to contend with as well.)

This should make any non-John Rambo types feel a little more comfortable, too. It should go without saying, but you don’t need to turn into a Rambo to survive an urban survival situation. But that doesn’t let you off the hook on practicing wilderness survival skills. There are many wilderness survival skills that are useful, if not necessary, in urban situations.
Using Wilderness Survival Skills In Urban Survival Situations

People who made it through Beirut’s urban-survival period reported going through several boxes of matches per month. The simple skill of knowing how to blow an ember into flame makes this laughable… if it weren’t so sad and avoidable.

A basic wilderness survival skill I use every morning when I am in the woods is to find an ember from the previous night’s fire; place it into a bird’s nest of dry grass, inner stringy tree bark, milkweed, thistle or other materials; and blow on it until there is a flame. In an urban area, you can do this with any of these materials, but also with paper products, cotton balls or other materials.

Take it one step further: The wilderness survival skill of making a coal from a bow drill, hand drill or other primitive means will allow you to make fire without matches, lighters or an ember from a previous fire.

But one of the biggest skills you learn when backpacking or doing wilderness survival exercises is how to do without air conditioning, heat, beds, chairs, electronic distractions, fancy food and, sometimes, cleanliness. You also do without specialized tools, many automated devices, motorized transportation and specialized medical care. When you don’t have these things, you learn and eventually embrace the skill of improvising, adapting and overcoming.

You can learn this in an urban environment, and I have drills in the SurviveInPlace.com Urban Survival Course that help people do just that. But it’s also very valuable, if possible, to go out and live out of a backpack or your 72-hour kit for a night or two (or three). Hopefully, you’ll forget stuff — and have to figure out how to improvise, adapt and overcome.
What About Car Camping?

Car camping can be as beneficial for survival training or as useless as you make it. If you take a generator, TV, fans, stereo, inflatable bed, 12-volt freezer and a blender, you probably won’t get a whole lot out of it.

But if that’s as primitive as you can get your family to agree to, there are still survival skills that you can train. Take what you need to in order to get your family to buy in, but just because you have it doesn’t mean you have to use it.

Use a primitive method of making fire… or start by just making fire without using paper, fire starters or by pouring fuel on the wood.

Collect some water and boil it over your fire. Or make a solar still to find out just how little water they actually make and how many square feet of stills you would need to set up to sustain you.

Set up an improvised shelter. If sleeping in it overnight isn’t an option, at least figure out what you need to do to make it comfortable enough to take one or two naps in or spend an afternoon reading in. You may not need to make a shelter from a fallen tree in an urban-survival situation, but you can use the same skills and principles to make a shelter within your house to keep you warm in a cold-weather situation.

It could be as simple as leaning your box spring against a wall, covering the end openings with blankets and making your bed underneath it. In both cases, you’re trying to make as small an area as possible for your body to warm up by radiation and your breath and trying to lose as little heat as possible due to conduction. It is much easier to do this when you’re warming up a small, tent-sized area than when you’re trying to warm up an entire room.

If you have kids or grandkids, simply tell them you’re making forts or little houses. You can have a ton of fun with this. Maybe even turn down the temperature in your house to about 40 degrees one afternoon and night in the winter and have a sleepover in the fort.

If you are willing to kill and eat what you catch and are somewhere where that is allowed, set traps and snares and figure out how many you would need to set to feed you and your family. (As a note, spring-type mouse traps are a great intermediate step for this… just make sure to tie them to something heavy in case you catch an animal by the leg. Once you get comfortable with the traps, you will start seeing several ways to use them as triggers for improvised electronic and mechanical perimeter alarms.)

You can practice all of these tips, regardless of whether you are car-camping, backpacking, on a hunting trip, in your back yard, or sometimes even in your apartment or condo. Just because you have cushy stuff with you doesn’t mean you have to use it.

In fact, some primitive wilderness-survival schools use a similar method to teach survival skills. Instead of dropping students in the woods with a knife, bubble gum, dental floss and a paper clip to sink or swim, they have students bring all of their normal backpacking supplies. They learn primitive skills while they are well-fed and rested, and they can use new primitive skills or fall back on their backpacking gear as they see fit. If their shelter-building skills don’t work well and they are freezing at 3 a.m., they have the choice to fix their shelters, tough it out or slip into their tents and sleeping bags to warm up and regroup.

Even in SERE (Survival Evasion, Resistance and Escape) school, students often fail at catching an animal and are given a rabbit or other animal to kill, clean, cook and eat.

In short, it’s a solid method to use, whether you are learning yourself or trying to help your family members become more self-reliant. And if you have reluctant family members, you’re going to want to make learning new skills as fun as possible so they don’t shut down and resist preparing altogether. Forcing someone to starve because his trap didn’t work or freeze because his shelter isn’t good enough probably won’t win over a reluctant relative, but having fun might.
So, tell me, what wilderness survival skills have you developed that carry over to urban survival situations? What fun ways have you been able to get your family members to learn and practice them with you? Have you practiced any skills while camping specifically to help you in SHTF situations in urban areas? Let me and the other readers know by commenting below.

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Chemtrails finally admitted

May 10, 2011

A We Are Change San Francisco member taped the following event on April 21, 2011 at the San Francisco Public Library. Geo engineering (chemtrails) were stated as an axiom with this panel of scientists and several members of Wac SF confronted the scientists afterwards. One such confrontation was that of John Fitzgerald who ran for Congress and Mayor of Martinez, California on a 911 truth and End the Fed platform.

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The Ultimate Prepper Bug Out Home

Author: Mac Slavo- May 11th, 2011
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What would you do if you had a couple million dollars to spare?

If you’re a prepper, than you’d likely be looking to put yourself in a home like this one on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland.

At first glance, you wouldn’t think much about it, other than it being a nicely built country home. It’s stylish with the architectural design based on Polish “cube” homes of the 1960′s:

If the world ever goes Zombie Apocalypse, however, it quickly transforms into an impenetrable maximum security safe house through the use of sliding walls, a roll-top door and a draw bridge.

The outer cube of the home is constructed with steel and concrete, and has an outer perimeter wall for added security.



Few details have been provided about the home’s interior, but we suspect that anyone who has gone to the trouble of building this ultimate prepper bug-out safe house would also have built a multi-level basement and perhaps even a secret escape tunnel or two. Our thinking is if you’re gonna’ blow a million or two on construction you might as well go full-prepper and throw in all the bells and whistles.

Dare to dream.

The possibilities are endless when you have the money and your very own concrete and steel-reinforced survival cube.

Hat tip Jonny V and Tess Pennington
(Photos: Aleksander Rutkowski/Robert Konieczny – KWK Promes)

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Video: Hand Operated Washing Machine

http://beprepared.com/article.asp?ai=625&SID=ppblog

Aug 14, 2009

This washer uses a technique of pushing and pulling the water through the clothes, without excess friction (which also reduces the wear on your clothes). This washer uses minimal water and because of the agitation motion, less soap. Use in a bucket, sink or tub. It also rinses your clothes using fresh water. A great item to have with your emergency and outdoor supplies.

A Prepper Survival Manual

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