It is Friday so you know what that means another round of your calls with questions, comments and suggestions. Remember our call in shows are not live, to get you call on the air dial 866-65-THINK and leave your comment or questions in 2 minutes or less and you might get onto our next show.
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Join me today as we take your calls asking…
- How religious do you have to be about no dog crap in the compost bin
- How do you prep if you rent a room in a house from a cohabiting home owner
- Using Google Docs to make your data accessible
- How to start investing now for a new baby’s future
- How remote does a good BOL need to be
- Some facts about the so called swine flu “pandemic”
- What exactly is compost and what goes in it
- How do you modify a generator to run on pure ethanol
- What if the Federal Reserve refused to lend to the government
Resources for Today’s Show
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Today we discuss “alternative energy”, not always “green energy” as a path to energy independence. Like many topics that involve “independence” it is not an all or nothing concept, unlike death, independence does come in degrees. So what we cover today ranges from initial baby steps to full tilt off grid life.
Join me today as we discuss…
- The why’s behind the quest energy independence
- Alternative vs. green energy
- Polar bears vs. practicality
- Peak oil? May be. Peak expense? Inevitable.
- Taxation
- Disaster
- Liberty
- Steps on the route to independence
- Start with efficiency
- Identify reality (lights aren’t that big a deal)
- Building a back up system
- Adding a small generator
- Adding solar/wind to your back up system
- Adding a large generator
- Building a passive solar heater
- Building a solar hot water heater
- Going full tilt with solar and wind
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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.
I am doing a bit of a change up today, first I am going to read an email from a listener about how his family’s life has changed due to TSP, then an article I wrote many years ago about a gun I have carried for almost three decades and then move on to today’s main topic energy independence.
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Tune in Today to Hear…
- What TSP has meant to one family
- My story of an old Marlin 22 and what it can teach us
- Taking slow steady steps to individual energy independence
- Why the politics of “climate change” do matter
- How energy dependence creates an infinite tax web
- Why we must resist cap and trade
- Why windmills and solar panels owned by the utility companies won’t ever fix our issues
- How you can build a back up batter box and use it to move forward
- What a battery back up and one solar panel can teach you
- The reason you should own two generators not just one
- How to think about your own energy needs in a way that will create action
- Why achieving even 10% independence for yourself changes everything
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.
Today I want to take a moment to discuss severe weather events with you and some ways you can prepare to deal with them.
Tune in to hear…
- Severe weather is a universal problem only the type of event changes
- Remember disaster commonality it is your ally in prepping
- Thunderstorms, hurricanes, drought, winter weather and more
- The ice storm of 2008
- The strait line wind damage of 2004 in north texas
- The blizzard of 87 in the North East
- Hurricanes Rita, Katrina, Ike, Andrew
- Tropical Storm Fay
- Major needs food, back up power, water, shelter, cash, evac plans
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