energy production

From Energy Dependance to Energy Freedom

8 July 2010

While energy is not part of the top 5 things to worry about in a survival situation (I’d put in at #6, heh), having energy is a vital part of our lives and will make survival as well as day to day living much easier. This is going to cover heat, light and work.
Energy Freedom [...]

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Michael Yon: Gobar Gas II

16 June 2010

I love articles like this. It shows us how people are solving a survival problem, but aren’t thinking about it as a survival problem. To them it is just the answer.
A Gurkha veteran named Lalit whom I met, deep in the jungles of Borneo, at a British Army man-tracking school, came with good ideas.  Lalit [...]

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Popular Mechanics- Geothermal energy

21 September 2009

Popular Mechanics: ““You’re not making heat, you’re moving heat,” Colorado geothermal installer Jim Lynch says. Installations like Lynch’s tap into the earth below the frost line—which always stays around 50 degrees Fahrenheit—to reduce a home’s heating and cooling loads. All HVAC systems require energy-intensive heat movement, a task responsible for over half of the average [...]

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