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SURVIVAL in SUBURBIA
is an inexpensive e-book that contains over 50 pages filled with useful tips (and many informative links) on becoming self-sufficient, while gaining confidence and peace of mind for your family’s “survival”!
In these hard economic times, Americans are anxious… and looking for helpful tips on how to save money, feed and protect their family [...]
Jim Juczak hates mortgages. When he started building his home in rural Jefferson County, he resolved to stay out of debt.
The house he finished five years later is an 18-sided structure with 3,000 square feet of space. It is mortgage-free.
And much of it is made from junk.
The support beams are salvaged from a bowling alley [...]
Our new Photo Voltaic Solar Panels arrived this week while we were in Ft. Benning, Georgia. We were there attending our Son’s graduation from Infantry Training.
The six Panels are 195 watt Sanyo Hybrid panels. These panels have a amorphous layer over top the mono crystalline layer, and work well in cloudy and overcast weather [...]
We use a multifunction display from Outback called a Mate to monitor the operation of our charge controller, our inverter, and our battery bank. We have another shunt coming in so that we can monitor the wind turbine and solar independently. But what about logging and historical performance. It would be handy to be able [...]
My friend Nick Rosen interviews Hugh Piggott, grand daddy of DIY wind, and our inspiration: