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First of all, welcome to our site! We've been around for several years and conduct all kinds of half baked DIY projects on our show, This Old Shack. Be sure to check out all of our half witted articles and pages. If you have questions, just Email us and we will do our best to confuse you beyond all belief.NAVIGATION Email or Contact us here
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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 c80%hanged. 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.
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1980 our military switched its entire food ration program over to the full
moisture MRE pouch system. These are the meals we tested on "This Old
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Quite possibly the best preparedness site in the world.
There were several reasons for the switch:
Sprinkle of rain = power failure.
Giving a little back by not using so much.
Independent living.
Rant 2Yep, another thread on Usenet set me off...."Switching to compact florescent lights doesn't save that much." Saving energy, whether by producing your own or
from the grid makes sense in ways that most people
don't realize. As a conservative, I'm pissed that
here in the U.S. we don't use as much of our own
resources as we can but instead buy from abroad
(whether in N. America or elsewhere). As a person
who really doesn't want to help giant companies get gianter, I'm going to save as much as I can.
At my main home (a condominium) I have no choice
but to use the grid. At my cabin, I produce all my
own power, every damn watt of it either by solar
or by generator.
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How I testThere are several people on various newsgroups and discussion areas that waylay in uninformed or those just starting out in the off grid world of self power generation. This involves an almost religious belief in a phantom 6v golf cart true deep cycle battery that is superior in every way to any other battery in existence.
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