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Disaster planning should be part of every single household across America, strike that, the world. When disaster strikes, people die or lives are changed. In times of plenty, forego the Playstations and buy extra food. You can explain a lack of toys better than a lack of food to your children.
Three years ago, our home caught fire. I spent time in intensive care and almost died, thus I know from whence I speak.
As we go into our third season of "This Old Shack", disaster planning and survival episodes become more important. After all, that's what alternative energy is - the ability for you to survive without an infrastructure. All of our episodes of This Old Shack and our new show, "CSI:SALINE" will reflect this in 2009. Oh, of course there's going to be laughs and beer drinking - this survival crap is depressing to think about.
So, practice your fire drills with the crumbcrunchers, practice evacuating yourselves, your pets, your neighbors. Learn how to use a fire extinguisher. And watch our videos!
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NAVIGATION
But why solar power?
There were several reasons for the switch:
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Sprinkle of rain = power failure.
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Giving a little back by not using so much.
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Independent living.
Benefits:
- Renewable power.
- Learning about solar power.
- Own stock in the solar panel company. :-)
- I like batteries.
- I can sit around smoking a cigar because I'm an energy mogul!
Drawbacks:
- Maintenance.
- Installation.
- Bunch of black glass panels sitting around.
Northern Michigan Solar CabinOfficial home of "This Old Shack"Learn about alternative energy, hybrid systems and watch pointless videos! Updated:10/15/2009 Well,
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Our resource table of outstanding links and information. |
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| Solar Sphere, sells solar panels, custom-built systems, power kits, lighting, fountains, and educational courses. They also have a lot of free information and a large learning center: |
Watch our nightly live show on SETV at 7:30 pm, eastern. You can watch 24/7 too! |
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Green Trust, a great resource for alternative energy options. Check them out.
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Shine solar, A leading solar panels manufacturer based in China. United Solar Ovonic makes thin film solar panels in Michigan, where we are located! |
Sun Electronics has been selling Solar Panels, Inverters, Charge Controllers and Everything you need for a complete solar power system for over 36 years. |
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Off the grid!Latest Diary entry:So....we've been busy updating a ton of stuff on several web sites as well as working our our television network, Saline Entertainment Television and our live feed from there. Sadly, we've had a serious family illness so there have been no trips to the shack this year. What we're doing is planning out one single trip in August as well as doing some alternative energy stuff here at our main headquarters in Saline, Michigan. It's an all new episode of This Old Shack, starring Bill Xam! Bill is finally back with a new episode. Why so long between episodes? We've been converting the This Old Shack truck to a hybrid! The new episode is here. he latest episode of This Old Shack is now available for your viewing pleasure. This is the first of two parts about fuel mileage and features hypermileage driving techniques. In the hospital, out of the hospital, back in the hospital. Middle age is so much fun. LET THE GREAT TIRE SEARCH OF 2008 BEGIN! During the first week of July, we finally got the mileage of the This Old Shack truck dialed in at 25.6 miles per gallon over a 270 mile loop. Now we're going to test some low rolling resistance tires, Hankook Dynapro AS RH03 tires that tested in laboratory conditions as above average. Photographs of weather stations in Michigan. Each entry in the energy blog now has a comment link for posting comments. The comments are courtesy of Halo. Watch our latest lightning video, shot at the shack last week. Oh baby, do we have a video for you! I'm a storm chaser and as luck would have it we had a major lightning storm here at the main house. Lightning hitting the street in front of us, transformers blowing up and our neighbors getting hit by lightning. Check it out! If you've watched my Youtube trailer for the season premier of This Old Shack, you're probably saying, "Bill, what the heck happened to your hair?". Go here to find out more. Don't ask me why, but I've recently become interested in studying earthquake/volcano activity around the world; ash plumes and such. I've added a page with RSS feeds and links to satellite imagery. And finally the data you've been looking for, excerpts from the NREL redbook! The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has released their datasets for the climate. Carbon Dioxide map here. Spring weather outlook here.
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