Off The Grid Expo will soon be coming to Reno, Nevada. Off The Grid News recently sat down with event organizers Tony Spiker and John Appert to discuss the expo designed to educate those considering untying themselves from the power ...
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Arizona To Host Survivalist Prepper Expo
June 24, 2013 The Arizona Survivalist/Prepper Expo is one of the many summer and early fall events geared to advancing the efforts of those concerned about fallout from either a man-made or natural disaster/crisis in America. The off-the-grid movement and ...
Read More »How To Make Your Alternative Energy Batteries Last
Has anyone ever written an ode to batteries? If so, we can be pretty sure the aspiring poet who did so was an alternative energy enthusiast who discovered firsthand how absolutely essential it is to have a well-supplied battery bank ...
Read More »The Absolute Best Batteries For Off-Grid Energy Systems
June 3, 2013 On the classic television show Star Trek, the starship Enterprise had a disturbing habit of losing power at the most inopportune of times. When your ship is being chased through interstellar space by a Klingon warbird or ...
Read More »Increase In Solar Flares Threaten Power Grid
Solar flare activity has increased significantly in recent days. There have been a total of four X Class solar flares since Mother’s Day last Sunday. While none of the coronal mass ejections (CME) were Earth-directed, NOAA now expects the active ...
Read More »Off The Grid News Sits Down With “Secret Garden Of Survival” Author, Rick Austin
The vulnerability of the power grid is one of the primary motivations for thousands of Americans who have become preppers or opted for a homesteading lifestyle. Secret Garden of Survival-How to Grow a Camouflaged Food-Forest author Rick Austin recently talked ...
Read More »Building-Integrated Photovoltaics: The Future Of Solar Energy?
Despite the political scandals, the failed promises, and the general difficulties that new energy technologies face when trying to break the stranglehold of fossil fuels, the field of solar energy has continued to advance and expand. Past disappointments aside, at ...
Read More »Building a Water Heating Solar Panel
March 18, 2013 I built a solar water heating system. In this video I show you how I built the water heating solar panels. My current system of twenty panels have the capability to collect 500,000 BTU per sunny day. ...
Read More »Adventures In Earthship Living
“To boldly go where no one has gone before” – through its various incarnations, this was the continuing mission of the starship Enterprise, as its intrepid crew traveled the lengths and breadths of the universe in the star vessel that ...
Read More »Is Nano-Solar The Holy Grail Of Alternative Energy?
An energy production system that relies almost completely on the incineration of fossil fuels is wasteful, inefficient, unreliable, and unclean. Burning coal to make electricity is a crude and outdated approach, but alternative energies have still not advanced far enough ...
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