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Episode-799- Greenhouse Thoughts, Construction, Usage and Considerations

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Modern Survival| 37 Comments
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A Green House is More than a Season Extender

It is winter, it is cold, the hoe and spade have likely been cleaned, oiled and put into the shed.  Seed catalogs are coming in and dreaming of spring has likely begun even before the Christmas holiday is over.

Wake up, there is much to be done!  With a greenhouse, small, medium or large we can get plants started early, we can grow food even in the cold and with some modifications we can even beat old man winter and possibly grow what, “can’t be grown this time of year around these parts”.

I will even share some innovative exotic ideas with you that could be used to create a profitable niche business or just to do something others think “can’t be done”, which is always fun to do.

Join Me Today As I Discuss…

  • The real value of a greenhouse year round
  • Micro greenhouses
  • Cold frames
  • Mid sized greenhouses
  • Large greenhouses
  • House joined greenhouses
  • Using a “tarp zipper”
  • Creating heat traps
  • Building “self watering systems”
  • The use of “movable insulation”
  • Great stuff to grow
  • Starting plants
  • Shade cloth
  • Exotic options

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-798- Steven Harris on Solar Heating Systems

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Modern Survival| 39 Comments
Episode-798- Steven Harris on Solar Heating and Solar Hot Water [ 1:08:56 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Steven Harris - CEO of Knowledge Publications

Steven Harris returns to TSP for his 5th visit.  Today he joins us to discuss solar heating, movable insulation, improving green house efficiency and solar hot water.

Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA.

Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation.

Steve is always full of great ideas, knowledge and projects we can use to improve our personal energy independence and today is no exception.  Make sure to post your follow up questions for Steve’s next appearance in February in the comments section below.

Join Us Today as we Discuss…

  • Why solar heat is the best and easiest form of alternative energy
  • How you can build solar heating devices for little to no money
  • The three best books on solar heating
  • Why a solar heater can be too and how to prevent it
  • Why water best used to store heat
  • How you can insulate your green house with “movable insulation”
  • How much heat is actually lost to the night time sky
  • How to make a simple portable solar heater

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-777- Alcohol Fuel Questions and Answers with Steven Harris

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Modern Survival| 14 Comments
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Steven Harris - CEO of Knowledge Publications

Today one of our all time favorite guests, Steven Harris returns.  In episode 755 Steven went over exactly how to make alcohol fuels at home and how to use alcohol fuels in modern vehicles.  Today he comes back to answer the massive number of questions that episode yielded.

Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA.

Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation.

Join us today as we discuss…

  • Why small scale production is where to start
  • How to ensure you get a full mixture with gas and ethanol
  • The pros and cons of running ethanol fuel
  • Why some people get good mileage with ethanol and others do not
  • Using ethanol for alcohol stoves and smaller engines
  • Running E85 and Gasoline mixes in your modern vehicle
  • Ethanol yields per pound from stale bread you can get for free
  • With ethanol “unclog existing crud” and cause problems in older vehicles
  • Where all the FUD comes from in the Ethanol Fuel World
  • How anyone can get a permit to make ethanol for free
  • The storage life of ethanol fuels

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-755- Steven Harris on Making Alcohol Based Fuels at Home

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Modern Survival| 38 Comments
Episode-755- Steven Harris on Making Alcohol Based Fuels at Home [ 1:01:21 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Steven Harris from IMakeMyGas.com

Did you know that you can legally and inexpensively make your own alcohol based fuels at home.  Today Steven Harris joins us to discuss doing just that!

We start off with the easiest method by using sugar and move onto ways to cut the cost to almost nothing such as getting left over bread, cola syrup, old doughnuts, etc as feed sources for your yeast.

Steven is also giving away five free copies of Alcohol Can Be A Gas by David Blume which the absolute bible on making your own alcohol based fuels.  You can enter that contest at IMakeMyOwnGas.com

Making alcohol based fuels is actually very easy and in fact Steven describes it as the “second oldest profession known to man”.  If anchorite Sumerians could make beer from spoiled barley gruel surly anyone can learn to basically do the same thing today.

Join Us Today As We Discuss…

  • What exactly is alcohol based fuel made up of
  • Can it be run safely in modern engines
  • What are the best sources of material for making your own alcohol fuels
  • How can you make your own fuel tomorrow in your own home with less than a 250 dollar start cost
  • What is the difference between ethanol and methanol
  • The good, bad and ugly of using corn as a fuel stock
  • A laundry list of just about everything that you can use to make alcohol fuels with
  • How to get a free permit for making alcohol fuel
  • How you could make your own consumable alcohol if the SHTF – currently illegal
  • The stuff a brewer has to worry about that a fuel maker can totally ignore

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

  • Steven’s Websites
    • Solar1234.com – Get info on all Steven’s Sites
    • IMakeMyGas.com – Where you can enter the contest and order the items we discussed on today’s show.

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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Episode-726- Alternative Energy Production Q&A Session with Steven Harris

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Modern Survival| 21 Comments
Episode-726- Alternative Energy Production Q&A Session with Steven Harris [ 1:32:47 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Steven Harris - CEO of Knowledge Publications

Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA.

Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation.

His first appearance was one of the all time audience favorites on The Survival Podcast so today he returns to answer audience questions on anything and everything alternative energy.

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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MSB Special Deal – Bread From Gasoline for 5 Bucks

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Modern Survival| 7 Comments

One of our newest MSB supporting vendors USH2.com run by Steven Harris is running a short term HUGE discount program for all MSB members. Right now until close of business on Friday, August the 5th you can get Steve’s Awesome Video, “Bread From Gasoline” for only 5 dollars. It normally sells for 34.95 and is full of awesome insight into many of Steven’s best methods of simple energy production all applied to the simple act of baking bread in an emergency.

At the bottom of this post is a trailer of the video so you can get a better feel for it.

Again this normally sells for 34.95 and you get the full video by download after the order in  MP4 that is compatible for your iPod or can be played on any PC or Mac.  There is no code for this special only a special link to get the video, that link is currently in the main page of your MSB account.  When you log in you will see it right at the top of Brigade HQ.

So what if you are not in the MSB? 

Well if you want this video, you can either pay the full 34.95 or join the MSB this week to get the special price.  James has asked me to offer a discount on the MSB in return for this awesome deal so I am doing that.  This week you can get 20% off any term of the MSB as a new customer using the coupon code “bread”.  You can use this if you pay by mail as well.  If you pay by mail odds are you won’t get your login in time for the Bread from Gasoline special, so if you do that email me and I will send you the link directly.

To Join the MSB Go Here

Here is the Trailer for “Bread from Gasoline”

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Episode-707- Steven Harris on Bio Fuels for Personal Energy Independence

Posted on July 21, 2011 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
Episode-707- Steven Harris on Bio Fuels for Personal Energy Indepencence [ 1:00:55 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA.

Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation.

Mr. Harris is currently working on Project Destiny, a solar hydrogen energy system and holds break through technology in the field of Solar Energy Conversion and Biomass Gasification. He is authoring an upcoming book, “The Positive Promotion of Hydrogen Energy a Model for Success in an Economically Driven Market” and the currently released book, “Sunshine to Dollars”, “Surviving the Blackout of 2003″, plus the author of 4 Hydrogen related DVDs and 2 other videos.

Join us Today as we Discuss…

  • What is Project Destiny?
  • What is the best REAL solar energy to use in a disaster?
  • Can a generator be run off biogas
  • Can a vehicle be run off biogas.
  • What is the history of cars running on biogas ?
  • How to run natural gas appliances on biogas?
  • How much biogas could be produced in a small backyard operation?
  • How to obtain material for making biogas for little to no cost
  • How to build your own wood gasifier inexpensively
  • How to stay safe when making bio gas
  • How do you safely store, compress, etc. biogas?
  • How much biogas already is working at a national level

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-657- Creating the Low Cost BOL

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Modern Survival| 35 Comments
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The Dirt Cheap Survival RetreatToday we are going to take a look at setting up a BOL on the cheap or at least inexpensively.  There are a ton of ways to accomplish this and land is still one of the best investments a person can make.

I also do a brief review today of a great resource for setting up that low cost retreat, it is called, The Dirt Cheap Survival Retreat by M.D. Creekmore, author of The Survivalist Blog.

If you have never read M.D. Blog take a look at it today because he has some great information and insights on modern survival living.

Join me today as I discuss…

  • New Prospective Guest Survey Form
  • Awesome money saving show on the way
  • My thoughts on M.D. Creekmore’s new book
  • Thoughts on land, what you need, what you don’t
  • Solar vs. wind vs. grid
  • Propane is your friend
  • Small generators
  • Creative battery charging
  • Travel trailer vs. shed/shack vs. shipping container
  • Distance desirable vs. distance tolerable
  • Security when off site
  • Internet access
  • Identify the area, then hunt

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-626- Prepping from Starting Out to Advanced Tactics

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
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Food Storage is One Major Component of Survival

Food Storage is One Major Component of Survival. - Photo Credit to Linda & Clark via flickr

With the disaster in Japan I am getting a lot of emails from brand new people and long time listeners, the basic question is “what should we do”?  Well this may be hard for you to believe given the non stop media coverage of the burning reactor but the answer is, unless you are in Japan you should probably not do anything.  That said getting out of Japan unless you are part of the relief efforts probably isn’t a bad idea.

You certainly shouldn’t go spend 100 dollars for a bottle of potassium iodine on eBay because you will be able to get all you want for about 15 bucks a bottle in about a month, there is really nothing for you to do, perhaps other than make a contribution to the relief efforts in Japan.

What we all should be doing right now personally is using this current disaster as a gut check of sorts.  Rather than worry about some fictitious cloud of death, that just isn’t going to happen you should be asking the following.  What would it have meant to me had this disaster occurred in California or New York?  What if it had just been a tsunami, just a nuclear accident or just an earth quake but had happened much closer to me, would I have been prepared enough to shelter in place or get out of dodge?

With that in mind I think it is time we take a show to go back and just talk about prepping in general, the tenets of preparedness and self evaluation of how we would handle a disaster that wasn’t thousands of miles away.

Join me today as we discuss…

  • Why now is not the time to panic but to plan
  • Why 30 days is the absolute minimum amount of food you should have on hand
  • Why having a means of water purification is more important than water storage
  • Why you need both lethal and non lethal methods of self defense
  • Getting started with personal energy independence
  • Understanding how most people are enslaved by the systems
  • Realizing the link between liberty and prepping

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-566- Cam Mather on Off Grid Living

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Modern Survival| 9 Comments
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Cam Mather who originally appeared in Episode 364 is back to share another round of wisdom about living off grid.

Cam and his family unplugged from the grid about 14 years ago, today they are continuing their journey by expanding agricultural production, expanding their solar arrays and more.

His first book “Thriving During Challenging Times, The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook” provides a road map for readers to deal with the converging challenges of climate change, peak oil and resource depletion and the economic crisis.

His second book “The All You Can Eat Gardening Handbook” shows how to turn your back yard into your own “One-Hundred-Foot-Diet Produce Department” with minimal fossil inputs.

Join us today to learn…

  • The real joy of living the “unplugged life”
  • Why unplugged doesn’t mean dark ages or low tech
  • How you can begin your own journey to energy independence
  • Why efficiency is the cheapest form of alternative energy
  • Growing your own food
  • Storing your surplus production
  • Surviving ice storms in style
  • Inexpensive ways to build your soil with things others throw away
  • Staying in touch with satellite internet and TV options

Resources for Today’s Show

Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.

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