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Cow Manure: A Breaking New Natural Gas Resource

Apr 22nd, 2013 | By
Cow Manure: A Breaking New Natural Gas Resource

An Indiana dairy farmer’s earth-friendly fuel solution offers another great alternative for homesteading families and off the grid preppers. Mike McCloskey of Fair Oaks Dairy Farm has turned cow manure into a viable and inexpensive natural gas source. The dairy’s 60 tankers travel more than 12 million miles around the tri-state region on the cow chip fuel each year. Should the power grid go down due to the actions of Chinese hackers, a solar flare, or an EMP attack by North Korea – going to the local gas station for fuel will no longer be
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“Old-Fashioned” Energy Storage

Apr 9th, 2012 | By
“Old-Fashioned” Energy Storage

Tapping into power is one thing, but sustaining the energy and using it full time is quite another.  Regardless of the type of energy source you use (ideally more than one in conjunction with each other to create a genuinely self-sufficient program), you will want to store excess produced energy to be able to access
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So What Exactly is Hydro-Fracking?

Dec 19th, 2011 | By
So What Exactly is Hydro-Fracking?

At one time, natural gas was seen as little more than a superfluous byproduct of the oil extraction process. But once the potential of natural gas as an energy source became clear, a new era in energy production was soon off and running. Today, natural gas accounts for 23 percent of the world’s total energy consumption, and the International Energy Agency is projecting that by 2035, natural gas use across the globe will expand by an astounding 44 percent. One of the reasons why governments and industry are pushing natural gas so hard at the
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