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Processing pine trees for food

By Skean Dhude

Over the weekend we were out again in the woods looking for nature’s bounty. The plan was for more acorns but this time we found an abundance of pine cones on the way so we filled our pail with those. Besides decoration the only thing I thought cones were good for was burning. So I […]

2nd April 2015 | Category: Food Preparation, Homestead, Power |

When you have to do it yourself

By Skean Dhude

Technology is great. It makes our lives easier and allows us to perform many tasks that only a few decades ago were almost impossible for us to do. It saves lives and is a benefit to society in that it allows our society to advance faster than ever before and this allows us to reach […]

2nd April 2015 | Category: Communication, Information, Navigation, Power, Tools, Vehicles, Weapons |

Solar power in the UK

By Skvez

When thinking of backup electrical power for during/after an event solar has a number of things that make it initially seem attractive:

No fuel (well sunlight but we’ll get to that) No noise (good OPSEC) Low visibility (good OPSEC) Long life expectancy (many decades) Miniscule maintenance (an occasional wipe down if it gets dirty)

However […]

3rd April 2015 | Category: Power |

Looking to the Future – Infrastructure

By Skean Dhude

The next article in our series ‘Looking to the Future‘ is Infrastructure.

Infrastructure is a potential community project. With a potential usage encompassing all in the community to some level it is likely to be one of the first areas where the group decides to collaborate and share the load. The following areas can be […]

3rd April 2015 | Category: Communication, Food Production, General, Homestead, Power, Sanitation, Water |
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