By Ben on June 1, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Food, Gear, Shelter, Tools, Water | Tagged backpacking, Bob, camping, clothing, fire, hiking, off-grid, sleeping gear, stoves, survival, tents, TEOTWAWKI, water purification, wilderness |
This is another great set of tips from my online buddy, Bob. He is a genuinely self-sufficient soul, living off the grid somewhere on the North American continent.
This time around, Bob discusses the optimal backpacking setup.
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My standard list of backpacking gear has changed very little in the past twenty years.
I favor fairly heavy leather boots [...]
By Harold on May 12, 2010
Posted in DIY, Featured Posts, Water | Tagged bargain, Berkey, bucket, water filters, water purification |
One of the best water purifiers on the market are Berkey water filters. Berkey’s use gravity filters that are cleanable, and use micro-permeable ceramic filter elements. These filters are extremely effective, long-lasting and require no electricity. The only drawback is the cost, following the steps in the video below you can make one yourself [...]
By Ben on April 6, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, Physical, Water | Tagged alternative water, Cameron Martin, Dean Kamen, distillation, filtration, inventions, JustGetThere, Slingshot, third world |
This article was originally posted on JustGetThere April 2, 2008. It was written by JustGetThere Featured Author, Cameron Martin; about Dean Kamen’s Slingshot water-filtering device. A small update follows the original article.
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Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards [...]
By Ben on March 4, 2010
Posted in Featured Posts, MacGyver, Physical, Water | Tagged beer bottle uses, China, solar water heater |
This is the sort of ingenuity that makes me smile.
A Chinese peasant has made a solar water heater – using only beers bottles and hoses.
The beer bottles lie on a board in rows, all connected by hoses which allow cold water to flow through them and be heated by the sun.
