Off-grid energy, backup power, shelter construction, and keeping the lights on.
Shelter & Power
Your refrigerator dies the moment the power does. A buried cooler makes a working root cellar, two nested clay pots become a desert fridge, and a bucket with a plunger washes clothes. These are not theories. They work.
Shelter & Power
Solar panels are useless without somewhere to store the power. Deep-cycle batteries hold what you generate, and a properly built bank keeps your lights on after sundown. Skip the car batteries. They are not made for this.
Shelter & Power
Over the past few years, the concept of disaster prepping has changed, evolved if you will. Demographics have broadened to include a diverse mix of people delving into the prepper world. Perhaps, this change was birthed by the mass shift in economic uncertainty brought on by the Great Recession o...
Shelter & Power
When conversations or debates turn to getting off the grid, the usual candidates for doing so, wind and solar power, will always make their obligatory appearance. Perhaps geothermal will get some airtime but what seems to be left out of the back and forth, and what probably wouldn’t even be consi...
Shelter & Power
It’s that very absence of sound that should cause you concerned. No rush of air through your home’s air ducts means there isn’t any heat for your family. No hum from the refrigerator means all that food inside will remain edible for only a few more hours. It’s at those moments that you kick yours...
Shelter & Power
Depending on whether your plans call for sheltering in one place or bugging-out, there are a wealth of options for any prepper to buy, build or designed their perfect shelter to survive any given disaster. Sheltering in place is the most convenient option for anyone. Usually, this means staying a...
Shelter & Power
Wind Energy 101 Harnessing the power of the wind is one of the most advantageous steps that a prepper can take when designing a home energy system. Wind energy is one of the fastest growing elements of the alternative energy movement. What this means for the preparedness expert is that the cost o...
Shelter & Power
The concept of living off the grid is becoming more popular as consumers become better educated about renewable energy sources. “Off the grid” is a term that describes a home that is powered without the use of the power grids maintained by utility companies. Contrary to popular imagery, off-grid ...
Shelter & Power
Finding alternative sources of energy to fossil fuel is a good and necessary evil in today’s energy crisis. Today, most of the world is generating electricity using fossil fuel — a non-renewable source of energy. It is projected that by 2050, about one-third of the world’s energy will need to com...
Shelter & Power
Among preppers, solar power has not been a primary concern. This is unfortunate because many of the possible scenarios that you are preparing for will ultimately require solar solutions if you are going to survive in the long term. Your supplies will not last forever. You cannot count on society ...
Shelter & Power
Our power grid is not as invulnerable as it may seem. A massive storm, civil unrest, an EMP, a solar flare, a terrorist attack – these and other incidences could knock the power out for weeks, months or even longer. Thankfully, there are alternatives to conventional power that can provide you wit...
Shelter & Power
One fact of modern life is that almost everyone is dependent on the convenience of electricity and tied to the grid. It is probably safe to say that most people do not even think of the grid while going about the activities of daily life. It is expected that lights will come on when a […]