1Nia/energy

This is great! A MUST listen! This is the brans behind The Fuels Report. Enjoy! Learn! DO something that makes your lifestyle a more sustainable lifestyle--energy-wise!

Exemplary story about the power of accessible and practical education/training. One person took the time to complete a training course and then implemented the lessons learned at home, transforming his entire community to one which had the benefits of "lights after dark."

wonderful resource for fuel news and information

From the page: "create your own bio fuels"

From the page: "a way to combine the best qualities of solar box and panel cookers into one very simple, affordable and practical solar cooker. Our unusual triangular design has recently evolved and expanded into a new type of solar still water purifier"
Visit the site for great pictures.

From the page: "With no fuel cost or emissions, the Serpa solar installation will produce electricity sufficient to power 8,000 homes and save more than 30,000 tons a year in greenhouse gas emissions compared with equivalent fossil fuel generation."
this is a link to an aerial view: ge.com/es/docs/442700_Serpa.jpg [ge.com/es/docs/442700_Serpa.jpg]

Dr Steven E Jones (formally physics professor at Brigham Young University, right you KNOW which Steven Jones this is...) presents a method for building a cooking device that is safe and low-cost, easy to make, yet very effective in capturing the sun's energy for cooking and for pasteurizing water. Requires cardboard, tin foil, black paint, and a mason jar. Professor Jones developed this while at BYU. I'm ring to recall if he siad that a few students worked with him on the project...The "blue print" for this is so clear it can be drawn from reading a description. A diagram is not needed to "get it" In the picture it looks like maleable cardboard painted silver inside. It cold also be the same cardboard with aluminum foil glued to the inside surface of the "funneled" cardboard. I'll look for my link and add it to this post a bit later on.



This the link to follow and read. Let me know if you try it out. Once you read it you'll realize how very do-able it is! This is better than a crockpot! You plug into the sun without wires and without dependence on a local utility company. Me?

I don't even have clean water. lol When I get the water under control and the fresh produce, I'll splurge on some aluminum foil and glue. :)