Instructables website shares how to make a portable solar charger for your backpack. Charge your electronics with the sun while your on the move.
Category Archive: Off Grid
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Jun 11
Off The Grid Non Electric Laundry Tools Round Up
Many of our readers have asked us what tools do they need to be able to do laundry in a disaster or in a long term power outage. This round up of different options will hopefully point people in the right direction so they can find what works for them. Challenge: Do not use your …
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Jun 08
Solar Fire Starter – Do It Yourself Project
Prep For Shtf website shares how to use a soda can to create a solar fire starter project.
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Jun 01
DIY Solar Battery Charger For Under 5 Bucks Project
Prep For Shtf website shares do it yourself solar battery charger for under five bucks. It is amazing how you can take a solar path light that you can find at any store or online and re craft into a very useful item that will recharge your batteries. This is the type of project amazing …
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May 25
Solar Water Heater from Stock Tank Project – Off The Grid
Build It Solar website share how to build a batch solar water heater from stock tank project. Many of our readers have asked us about different methods to heat water for an off the grid hot ( at least not ice cold ) shower or to wash dishes. Everyone knows how to boil water but …
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May 23
How Water Pumping Windmills Operate – Off The Grid
Backwoods Home Magazine shares a wonderfully informative article on how windmill powered windmills operate. Homesteads for generations have been using wind power to pump water with great success. This article explains what a water pumping windmill is, uses, having a well drilled, finding installing and maintaining a windmill and an irrigation tank.
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May 20
Dehydrating Food Without Electricity
The Prepper Project website shares the different ways to dehydrate food without electricity. There is a section how the easiest food to dehydrate and the most difficult foods… giving tips for both. I personally use my Food Saver machine to store my fully dehydrated foods because it removes the oxygen from with the bag therefore …
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May 19
How to Cook your Eggs in an Orange’s Skin, Great For Camping
Camp trip tells how to use an orange peel as a container to cook an egg in while camping. This is a neat idea because once you’ve eaten your egg you can just toss the peel, no dirty dishes to wash. Who wants to wash dishes when they are camping.
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Apr 28
Build a Solar Food Dehydrator—Easy, Inexpensive, Detailed Plans
Eco Hearth website shares a how to make a solar dehydrator so you can tap into the sun rays to dry your food. This design is really amazing: it has space between the trays so air can flow and circulate and a large surface of glass so it can absorb heat quickly and keep it. …
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Apr 25
How to Make an Off Grid Washing Machine
Remake America website shares a five gallon bucket outdoor washing design that helpfully will relieve some of the back strain of this labor intensive homesteading chore. If you have ever had to do off grid washing for a whole family ( chuckle ) you will understand why the women before electricity commonly called it ” …
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