Rocket stove (water heater) for the Grid

Okay Wizards and MacGyver's this should be an easy project to upgrade, what we would do and still may do in the future, to take this project and turning into a water heater  the steam coming off the system will pressure rise the water to pump it two bathrooms kitchen and other Off the Grid Homestead. If you can remember so many other projects can be connected to this one so keep it in mind put it in your book of Technology, and always think outside the box

DIY portable Off the Grid solar panels

https://showmeyourproof.blogspot.com/2018/05/tik-tock-generation-proves-they-were.html
If you want to improve the solar powered systems then try getting a small electrical motor and using the paper that's written above of course many people says this was nonsense. But we're going to show you proof that major corporations and other foundations have been using this technology even though they're calling it new it's not it's all about charging and consuming on a timer. Proof
https://showmeyourproof.blogspot.com/2018/06/he-told-me-it-was-nonsense-until.html

Make your homemade wind turbine step by step

Having domestic solar energy systems (or considering having them) is becoming increasingly common. However, the same does not happen with wind. Would you like to start taking advantage of this energy source? If so, we explain how to make a homemade wind turbine up to 12 volts, which you can install in the patio or on the terrace of your home.

Materials.

The materials that we will need for this project are:

• A motor. You can reuse it from old electronic equipment, such as an old printer, a video or a scanner. If you do not have any at hand, you can buy it online.
• PVC cutter.
• A piece of PVC pipe between 7 and 10 cm wide and around 2'5 long.
• Another piece of PVC pipe of the same diameter, but about 7.5 cm long.
• A piece of PVC pipe 2.5 cm in diameter and 2.5 cm. long.
• A piece in T for the connection of PVC pipes of around 2'5 cm wide.
• Piece for joining PVC pipes.
• Plastic (for example, the box of an old CD).
• A flange for the support.
• 22 AWG cable (0.6 mm diameter).
• Wire strippers
• Aspas.

Instructions.

First step: Prepare all the pieces.

Cut the PVC pipes so they have the indicated size. Remove the ring from the pipes as this will prevent them from turning easily.

Take the motor and wrap it in electrical tape until it fits into the connector part of the pipes. Next, cut and strip the ends of the cable making sure you have enough extra material.

Split the piece of plastic you had, in this case the CD case, and make sure you leave it clean of any part that sticks out. Now, with the 2'5 × 2'5 pipe you had, make a cut in which you can fit the CD. For this you can use a PVC cutter or a saw.

Second step: Wiring.

Solder the cable to the motor. In this case, the positive of the motor was welded and marked as negative and the negative as positive since this is going to be used to take energy and not to receive it. Once welded, slide the cable through the T piece, the 7.5 cm pipe, the connecting piece and the other pipe, the 2.5 mm one.

Drill a hole in the 2'5 cm pipe and slide the wire through it. Next, connect all the pieces taking care that they do not remain excessively tense, since this would prevent the turbine from turning.

Third step: Fin of the wind turbine.

Connect the CD case to the 2'5 × 2'5 pipe by sliding it into the cut you had previously made. Subsequently, join this pipe with the piece in T.

Fourth step: Paste and try.

Prove that everything is well assembled and stick it. Again, try not to tighten too much in this phase because if the pieces are too tight in the generator will not rotate.

Step five: Check the results.

As you will see in these videos, if everything went well, your homemade turbine should work exactly like that.

Sixth step: Final suggestions.

In these images you can see several options for the blades of your homemade wind turbine, including a solution made with a plastic bottle. Among all the options, the ones that showed the best results with light winds were the blades acquired in the market, of which four were incorporated into the wind turbine.

As you will also see in the images, you can combine the wind energy with the solar by adding a small panel to reinforce the engine and provide extra energy.

Extra tips

If you need more advice you can get it with this tutorial that will allow you to finish your wind turbine or improve the one you have created to give you the best possible result.

Make Fuel at Home With Portable DIY Refinery

Is it really that easy?

According to Quinn, it is. The MicroFueler weighs about 200 pounds and hooks up to a water and 110 or 220 volt power supply and wastewater drain just like a washing machine. It uses raw sugar (not the refined white stuff) and a proprietary time-release yeast mixture as feedstock. You can also use left-over booze if you've got any lying around. Toss it all into the fermenting tank, turn on the machine and in seven days you've got 35 gallons of ethanol. The MicroFueler has its own pump and hose - just like the pump at your corner gas station - so you can easily fill up your car.

"It's so simple, anyone can make their own fuel," Quinn says. Depending upon the cost of electricity and water, he says, the MicroFueler can produce ethanol for less than $1 a gallon. Quinn likens the MicroFueler to the personal computer and says it will cause the same sort of "paradigm shift."

"Just as the PC brought desktop computing to the home, E-Fuel will bring the filling station to the home," he says.

Maybe. Maybe not. Making ethanol at home is not as easy as Quinn might have you believe, says Daniel Kammen, director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory at UC-Berkeley. Making a lot of ethanol has generally required a lot of equipment, he told the New York Times, and quality control can be uneven.

“There’s a lot of hurdles you have to overcome. It’s entirely possible that they’ve done it, but skepticism is a virtue,” Kammen says.

Quinn is not some moonshiner trying to make a quick buck on the alt-fuel craze. He's a longtime entrepreneur who patented the motion-control technology Nintendo uses in the Wii. His partner in the E-Fuel venture is Floyd Butterfield, who has been distilling ethanol for more than 25 years and in 1982 won a California Department of Food and Agriculture contest for best design of an ethanol still.

They say they've overcome many of the hurdles to making ethanol at home cheaply, easily and efficiently. Quinn says the biggest breakthrough is the MicroFueler's membrane distiller, which uses an extremely fine filter to separate water from alcohol at lower temperatures and in fewer steps than conventional methods. Using sugar as a feedstock makes the process virtually odorless, he says, and leaves the wastewater so clean you can drink it. It also avoids the food-for-fuel debate that plagues corn-based ethanol because we're in the midst of a worldwide sugar glut.

A permit from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms will allow you to make ethanol legally, but running 100 percent ethanol in your car is against the law. No problem, Quinn says. Mix it with gasoline to create E-85. Just put a few gallons of gas in your car, then drive home and top it off with ethanol. Quinn says running sugar-based ethanol will produce about 85 percent fewer carbon emissions than using gasoline. You're all set if you've got a flex-fuel vehicle.

It's an open question whether switching to home-brewed ethanol will save you much money. The MicroFueler costs $9,995, although federal tax credits can cut the price to $6,998. Another $16 buys you enough yeast to make about 560 gallons of ethanol, and you'll have to pay for the sugar and water. You'll need as many as 4 gallons of water to make 1 gallon of ethanol.

The sugar is where the math could break down - it currently sells for about 20 cents a pound in the United States, and you need 10 to 14 pounds of it to make a gallon of ethanol. Factor in the cost of electricty and water and you may not be coming out ahead. But Quinn says changes in the North American Free Trade Agreementallows the importation of inedible or "ethanol-grade" sugar from Mexico for as little as 2.5 cents a pound and E-Fuel is creating a distribution network to sell it to consumers.

That same distribution network will deliver and install MicroFuelers when E-Fuel begins delivering them at the end of the year, he says.

Photos by Flickr user Streetwalker and E-Fuel Corp.

Homemade biodiesel

how to make your own algae biofuel

DIY project (Making a portable gas generator)

To make this project even better after watching the video, you're going to take some of the PVC pipe attached it to the intake of the fuel tank and attach a bigger gas tank for longer runs simple. You can also connect more than one two stroke engines with a built to give each engine a rest because they're easily overheated with long-duration runs. Again thank outside the box
Again after showing you how to build this motor upgrade it to run on the electricity should be very easy for you to do wheel be working on that project for you to see

• How To Make Insulin or the next best thing in a emergency

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  Injecting Insulin

  (Dr. Bones says:  Originally published in somewhat different form in 2011, this is a supplement to my 5-part series on Diabetes and Survival.  The final part of the series (natural remedies for Diabetes)  will be published in the next day or two.)

  Type I Diabetes and Making Insulin

  One of the questions I am asked most often is how to deal with Type 1 diabetics (Insulin-dependent)  in a long-term survival scenario.  There is a story about how home-made Insulin was produced in Japanese-occupied Singapore during WWII.  I have been unable to find the specific process used there, but I have come upon a lecture by one of the scientists who first produced Insulin in the lab.  This occurred in 1922, and the lecture is from that era.  The material used was the pancreatic organs of cows and pigs. I will add some comments below the transcript of the lecture.

  
  

  Here it is:

  
  

  “The present method of preparation is as follows. The beef or pork pancreas is finely minced in a larger grinder and the minced material is then treated with 5 c.c. of concentrated sulphuric acid, appropriately diluted, per pound of glands. The mixture is stirred for a period of three or four hours and 95% alcohol is added until the concentration of alcohol is 60% to 70%. Two extractions of the glands are made. The solid material is then partially removed by centrifuging the mixture and the solution is further clarified by filtering through paper. The filtrate is practically neutralized with Sodium Hydroxide. The clear filtrate is concentrated in vacuo to about 1/15 of its original volume.

  
  

  The concentrate is then heated to 50o degrees Centigrade, which results in the separation of lipoid and other materials, which are removed by filtration. Ammonium sulphate (37 grams. per 100 c.c.) is then added to the concentrate and a protein material containing all the Insulin floats to the top of the liquid. The precipitate is skimmed off and dissolved in hot acid alcohol. When the precipitate has completely dissolved, 10 volumes of warm alcohol are added. The solution is then neutralized with NaOH and cooled to room temperature, and kept in a refrigerator at 5oC for two days. At the end of this time the dark coloured supernatant alcohol is decanted off. The alcohol contains practically no potency. The precipitate is dried in vacuo to remove all trace of the alcohol. It is then dissolved in acid water, in which it is readily soluble. The solution is made alkaline with NaOH to PH 7.3 to 7.5. At this alkalinity a dark coloured precipitate settles out, and is immediately centrifuged off. This precipitate is washed once or twice with alkaline water of PH 9.0 and the washings are added to the main liquid.

  
  

  
  

  It is important that this process be carried out fairly quickly as Insulin is destroyed in alkaline solution. The acidity is adjusted to PH 5.0 and a white precipitate readily settles out. Tricresol is added to a concentration of 0.3% in order to assist in the isoelectric precipitation and to act as a preservative. After standing one week in the ice chest the supernatant liquid is decanted off and the resultant liquid is removed by centrifuging. The precipitate is then dissolved in a small quantity of acid water.

  
  

  
  

  A second isoelectric precipitation is carried out by adjusting the acidity to a PH of approximately 5.0. After standing over night the resultant precipitate is removed by centrifuging. The precipitate, which contains the active principle in a comparatively pure form, is dissolved in acid water and the hydrogen ion concentration adjusted to PH 2.5. The material is carefully tested to determine the potency and is then diluted to the desired strength of 10, 20, 40 or 80 units per c.c. Tricresol is added to secure a concentration of 0.1 percent. Sufficient sodium chloride is added to make the solution isotonic. The Insulin solution is passed through a Mandler filter. After passing through the filter the Insulin is retested carefully to determine its potency. There is practically no loss in berkefelding. The tested Insulin is poured into sterile glass vials with aseptic precautions and the sterility of the final product thoroughly tested by approved methods.”

  
  

   Making Insulin is Not Easy

  
  

  When I first published this article in 2011, my first impression was (and still is): It will be nearly impossible to put together the  chemicals necessary to produce Insulin as described above, not to mention the power to run centrifuges and other lab equipment.  In fact, you almost need a degree in Chemistry to even read the above.  Bottom line: Your kid’s chemistry set isn’t going to help much.

  
  

  It seems clear to me that perfect control of our Type 1 diabetics will be highly unlikely, but it may be possible to prevent life-threatening glucose levels as seen in Diabetic Ketoacidosis.  Consider stockpiling oral medications such as Metformin in the highest doses available, and place your diabetics on these when the Insulin runs out.  These medicines help counteract Insulin resistance, and what little Insulin your diabetics produce naturally may have more of an effect to lower blood sugars.  This, unfortunately, won’t work if the body produces no Insulin at all.

  
  

  
  

  Strict dietary restriction barely enough to maintain weight will also be necessary, in the form of frequent, very small protein-rich meals.  Maintain a reasonable level of activity, and hope for society to re-stabilize. Type 1 diabetics will have difficulty staying healthy in a long term off-grid situation.  Many type 2 diabetics, however, might actually improve from the limited caloric intake and the increased physical exertion involved in daily survival.

  
  

  
  

  Part 5 of “Diabetes and Survival” will discuss the most promising natural remedies to treat diabetes. These include trace elements, vitamins, and herbs. I can’t promise you glucose control, however; The FDA still does not recognize any natural supplement as both safe and effective in treating diabetes.

  
  

  
  

  
  

  With regards to major medical issues such as Diabetes, we will be between a rock and a hard place. We will have to improvise in an effort to keep our people reasonably stable.  In a collapse, we will have to realize that, sometimes,  something is better than nothing.

  
  

  
  

  For my series on Diabetes and Survival, go to Part 1 by clicking the link below:

  https://www.doomandbloom.net/diabetes-in-survival-settings-part-1/

  
  

  Joe Alton, M.D., aka Dr. Bones

  
  

  
  

  

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Using pure Ginger will lower your sugar, it is the next best thing if you have nothing else in an emergency remember the small tips it could save your life but are not guaranteed


• Diabetes During a Disaster: What to Do When You’re Out of Medication

  American ginseng may help lower blood pressure during a disaster if you have to go without your medication.

  by James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H.

  Okay, it’s disaster time, you’re a type 2 diabetic, and you’ve run out of or lost your oral medication. What do you do?

  Here are some ideas to lower your blood sugar.

  First, continue your diet and exercise. If you’re on oral medications that means you still produce insulin. Insulin works most efficiently when you (1) eat small meals not loaded with simple sugars, (2) stay hydratedwith water, (3) do a little exercise.

  Of course, you and your family’s safety comes first, and you may already be working to exhaustion, but if you’re stuck sitting all day in a shelter, get up and stir around a bit. This is good advice with or without your medication.

  
  Natural Ways to Lower Blood Sugar When You’re Without Medication

  There are about as many natural suggestions to lower your blood sugar as there are type 2 diabetics. Few work very well. None work nearly as well as prescription medication. Of the ones I’ve found, here are the three with the most evidence that they can significantly lower your blood sugar.

  Before trying any of these, check with your doctor. Although they can’t take the place of your prescriptions, if you take your regular dose of medication plus one of these, your blood sugar can drop too low.

  Ginseng Tea Recipe

  To make ginseng tea, just pour boiling water over five to eight slices of ginseng. Steep four to five minutes (or longer for stronger tea).

  Schumacher Ginseng, a ginseng farm in Wisconsin, says you can reuse the ginseng for two or three more cups of tea and then eat it. The question would be whether repeated steeping reduces the components that help with blood sugar.

  1. Alpha-lipoic acid
  It’s found in liver, spinach, broccoli, and potatoes. There’s also a supplement. Recommended dose is 200–300 mg per day.

  2. American ginseng
  Ingesting up to 3 grams within two hours of a meal has been shown to lower blood sugar. More doesn’t have any more effect. To get 3 grams you could take the supplement or one cup of tea (using 1 teaspoon or one teabag of the cut or ground ginseng). I’m not sure how much of the ginseng you’d have to eat for 3 grams.

  3. Coccinia indica
  Take 1 gram of the extract per day, or 2 ounces of the gourd. (Coccinia indica is an herb that grows in India.)

  In addition to these natural remedies, some studies have shown the mineral chromium and garlic to lower blood sugar. Other studies have found they have no effect. They’re worth a try if you have them.

  Has anyone tried these or any other natural ways to lower blood sugar with type 2 diabetes? How well did they work?