Rambo Moe's Online Encyclopedia of Survival Knowledge
Watery Wednesdays continues with a couple of ideas for making your own solar water purifiers. These are both low-cost, low maintenance designs. Used alongside solar cookers, these designs can supply clean water and warm food using only the power of the sun. Let's start with the deluxe version. THE DELUXE MODEL The Case: What You Will Need: First you will need the case to house your water … [Read more...]
Watery Wednesdays returns! Today we will learn two ways to build a homemade water filter. CERAMIC POT WATER FILTER This filter can be made using a ceramic pot and some other simple items. What You Will Need: 1) An unglazed (glazed pots are water proof) ceramic pot, with no holes or cracks. 2) A plastic bucket or container with an opening that has the same diameter … [Read more...]
This article is a guide to building your own umbrella solar cooker. To learn more about solar cookers and what they do, read this article: SOLAR COOKERS: AN INTRODUCTION. This is the third, and probably most creative, segment of our DIY solar cooker series- how to make a solar cooker out of an umbrella. This cooker utilizes the parabola shape, one of the most effective shapes for solar … [Read more...]
This article is a guide to building your own box solar cooker. To learn more about solar cookers and what they do, read this article: SOLAR COOKERS: AN INTRODUCTION. Box solar cookers tend to be the most effective solar cookers (or at least, the most effective of the cheaper, easier to build kinds). They utilize all the methods (concentrating sunlight, converting light to heat, trapping heat … [Read more...]
This article is a guide to building your own panel solar cooker. To learn more about solar cookers and what they do, read this article: SOLAR COOKERS: AN INTRODUCTION Panel solar cookers are the first form of solar cooker that is truly affordable to the neediest of the world. In 1994, a group of engineers created a model called the CooKit (a truly respectable double entendre), which could be … [Read more...]
Distillation is a process of filtering and purifying water, resulting in pure, pH-balanced H-TWO-O. The process consists of: 1) Boiling/evaporating the water, 2) Collecting the water vapor, 3) Cooling it to allow it to condense back into liquid, and then 4) Collecting the liquid. The boiling causes the pure water molecules to evaporate, leaving all impurities behind in the boiling … [Read more...]
