Day: June 10, 2007

Letter Re: Solar Power, Wind Power, 4WD Electric Vehicle, Wood Fired Brick Ovens

James, I am new to SurvivalBlog but I thought that I would share my experience and thoughts with everyone. I have a totally off the grid ranch that is powered by wind and solar. We have more electricity than we can use with a 40 kilowatt (KW) battery bank, 2 KW of photovoltaics and 1.4 KW of wind power. First I highly recommend a hybrid system, solar and wind. Usually when the sun isn’t shinning, the wind is blowing, especially when a storm is blowing in. My batteries are usually full by 1100 hours in the summer and 1200 hours …


Letter Re: From Russia With Love

It is quite strange heading for the letter to the site like yours, isn’t it? But it is really so. My name is Andrei, I am Russian living in the suburbs of Moscow, Russia. I do have a lot of fun reading your great site. Of course, circumstances in Moscow, Russia and Moscow, Idaho, differ significantly, but there is a lot of the same stuff we must take care of if we are going to survive, be it in Western hemisphere or not. Surprisingly, actually there are no local web sites like yours while your site is a great source …


Letter Re: Analysis of Poll Data: List Your Top Five Survival Fiction Books and Top Five Survival Movies

Jim: I was bored, so I compiled the “raw data” that you recently provided in SurvivalBlog: TOP 3 SURVIVAL BOOKS (# of votes) Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse by JWR (10) Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (6) Lucifer’s Hammer by Niven & Pournelle (5) HONORABLE MENTIONS (3 votes) Lights Out by David Crawford Earth Abides by George Stewart Malevil by Robert Merle Wolf and Iron by Gordon Dickson Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein TOP 3 SURVIVAL MOVIES Red Dawn (6) Panic In Year Zero (5) The Postman (4) HONORABLE MENTIONS (3 votes) Threads The Road Warrior Testament Regards, …


Odds ‘n Sods:

JLM sent us the link to this Washington Post article: Switching To Biofuels Could Cost Lots of Green   o o o MWR flagged this article: Drought now covering more than one-third of the continental USA.    o o o CountryTek e-mailed us with a reference to a piece about a method discovered by MIT researchers for the wireless transmission of electrical power via materials resonance. His comment: “So far, they’ve been able to power a 60 watt bulb from about seven feet away. This non-technical article doesn’t talk about transmission efficiency, but the implications are huge.”