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Homemade Stoves, etc Homemade stoves and related, home or camping      Play all 161 videos Play all(161)
1 Solar Air Heater Videos These videos are about solar air heating for helping heat your living space at a very low cost. Also, you can consider suntracked mirrors to supply solar energy when the unit is not directly illuminated or to add a few extra hundred watts to your system. Using photovoltaic-electric generating solar panels for large amounts of heat is currently impractical and costly, otherwise their great to have. This is mainly beceause of an extra conversion (to heat...from sun light/heat to electric and back to heat) stage and low efficiency to begin with. My playlists generally do not include other solar energy topics such as photovoltaics, and solar water heating: those are great energy topics you might be able to find assembled on another channel. Would you like to save perhaps a$100 or more a month on your heating bill? You can either make your own solar air heater or purchase one already made from places like solarwindowheaters.com . Since green energy always includes the affordable choice too, anyone who can develop an inexpensive. less than $200, solar tracker-aimer (formally called a heliostat, ex: check http://heliostat.us, practicalsolar.com also sunviewenergy.ca and view redrok.com) for a simple flat mirror to increase the efficiencey of the solar air heater (or other solar system) would be a champion of green energy, could that be you? If you have a related video that you want posted here, then let me know. Even lousy designs, etc. are greatly appreciated since it will help all those build one. Maby you can't have wind or photovoltaic generated electricity, or a solar water heater right now for some reason, but a solar air heater is relatively cheap and the sun shines enough to conserve your other heating resources. Warmer weather is comming, if you can't afford/install a premade solar air heater consider making one, as large as feasable for your location, this summer. I'm sure you'll have alot of soda cans available as the summer heats things up. Perhaps you don't want to put holes in your walls to install such a system. You can consider an experimental system where the input air is from a lower floor level window in your house, and the output warm air is into an opening in a board/plexiglass set into an upper floor window. Some crafty people have even demonstrated using the same window for both the input and output ports of the solar air heater. Try not to block any or too much light comming in your window with the solar air heater....so mount it out of the way of that since you do need the light and the solar air hearter usually needs to be larger than one window anyway. I put a few extra ones in my "More Sun Heat" playlist, but that playlist will probably be less consistent, yet worth taking a look. Note, I have concentrated on utilizing "soda cans" as the solar collector surface, but you can use about any material painted black. Much work needs to be done on this topic.      Play all 172 videos Play all(172)
Growing Bell Peppers - Tomatos - Carrots Bell Peppers are a real good "green" (chlorphil) vegetable/fruit. Tomatoes and Carrots are also loaded with vitamins. Bell Peppers and Tomaotos are kind of expensive (why?) at the grocery store, so if you can grow your own, you will save about a $1us for each one. In fact if we all grew some, it might lessen the demand and then prices in the supermarket would drop which could benefit the old, etc, who might not be growing anything. I'm not sure why they are called "Bell Peppers", since they are not actually hot to the taste like some pepper substance is (ie. red "hot" peppers, cayenne pepper). Peppers start out green and is usually eaten when green/ripe, but yellow and then red is also possible colors on a bell pepper plant (the red color bell pepper, to me, seem sto have a very slight amount of "heat" to it. They can be eaten raw,and also add a nice unique flavor when cooked with things, even soups like ramen noodles when it is shredded. Sometimes you'll see pizza with some different colored peppers on it as a topping. Cooked/dried tomatoes are sweeter and are a very good element for many dishes. If you plant alot at once, it would be difficult to eat it or maby store/freeze/sell it all at once. So maby plant some different sets at 3 weeks apart. This is also a good idea if you are in a local "bartering/trading" group too, also, perhaps one person is better at growing a specific plant. First you will save money by growing some food. It is irresponsible if you do not grow any food, and shows a lack of maturity with nature and an over reliance on others/big farms for your substinance/own life. There are many things you can grow, but I figured that Bell Peppers, Tomaotos, and Carrorts are a good healthy start. Carrots can be a bit hard to eat. Especially young people who don't like their vegetables so much. Some people boil the carrot/pieces to make them soft to eat, but I'm not sure how much of the vitamins/minerals are destroyed by this. One think I do is to grate the carrots on a shredder/grater. The can be put in a container in the refrigerator for up to a week about, or in the freezer for much longer. When the carrots are shredded they can be put in or on all types of food/meals, for example you can put it in a pack of ramen noodle soup and make a semi-vegetable soup. There's loads of videos here on YouTube, so it's a great opportunity to everyone to get a green thumb and learn about growing food. Become a seed saver, plant them when needed. You can also buy seeds, and seedling/small sprouted plants. Potatos are good to grow, they "fill you up" easilly, and can last longer without refrigeration than alot of other vegetables. I found another playlist here on YouTube, mainly about growing peppers, so take a look: http://www.youtube.com/view_pl<wbr>ay_list?p=68673B9C0F44349F&sea<wbr>rch_query=Growing+bell+peppers Other plants to add to this "quick list" of things to grow is garlic and cucumbers. Garlic has many medicinal properties and is very healthy for you. You can shred it on a fine grater/shredder and have it the pure essential oil of garlic. I'd estimate a clove/segment a day or a few a week will do you right. Remember to save seeds as best you can, if you don't grow anything, then pass them to someone who can. Here is a website that sells rare types of pepper seeds, some are for sweet ones: http://www.amishlandseeds.com/<wbr>peppers.htm Also: http://www.johnnyseeds.com/c-1<wbr>-vegetables.aspx Here is a quick veggie sandwich (1 sandwich recipe): 1. 1/3 to 1/2 diced bell pepper into about 3/16 inch wind strips. 2. shredded carrot , 1/2 carrot , use a grater 3 some tomato, a few pieces (optional) 4 garlic , 1 or 2 finely shredded, fresh, cloves 5 lettuce (optionsl, typical) 6 some fresh squeezed lemon juice over you veggies, about 1/8 a lemmon (optional) 7. bacon bits , imitation, soy, (optional), if you like the taste of a BLT 8. other veggies of your choice, (perhaps onion, but small amounts, diced) (be careful witih leftover onions, where in a day or two, some harmful bacteria can grow on them and cause some gastro-intestinal problems.....for starters, heartburn maby e one of them Place it on bread and enjoy a cool, zippy, sandwich that is like a BLT, or "Wopper" without the high fat meat. And like those, its very addicting.      Play all 200 videos Play all(200)
Food Backup-Storage We don't really know when the next dollar, drought, or disease will come. Having some pounds of food around will at least ease the situation. Storing food for later use in the winter is a good example to start with. Hauling or hiking around with canned food is very heavy, rice and standard noodles are lightweight but require a signifigant time to cook, an alternative is quickoats, it can be eaten raw unlike rice and noodles, or cooked with water that you can hopefully find around someplace. Perhaps consider also getting an extra bag or box of rice and dehydrated potatoes. You can always use it for when company shows up. Oh yes, remember to get a little extra for your neighbor who may not understand. Learn to grow some of your own food. I have a playlist on growing bell peppers, tomatos, carrots, etc. Potatos can be stored without much refrigeration for a while, ans well as types of dried beans. Look up "Ice house" in Wikipedia to learn how to store ice for long periods of time, and hence store some food and medication for long periods of time. "Fruit Leathers" or "Fruit Rollups" are dried fruit matter that can store for a while without refrigeration. Don't forget, during the winter, refrigeration is easy outside in the cold air. Trade food items for items you don't have.      Play all 200 videos Play all(200)
Green Energy Water Heating and Ideas (some)      Play all 199 videos Play all(199)
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