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Solar panels are a rapidly growing method to power homes, businesses, and even communities. Solar cells have undergone a massive growth in their efficiency ability, their production and has only seen drops in price. As the conversation regarding climate change became one we are having on a daily basis, the rise of clean and renewable energy sources was inevitable. Solar panels are one of the solutions that people can undertake on an individual basis. This is a solution that not only helps the environment but gives individuals power of their contribution. The Federal Government of the United States offers numerous subsidies and...

I’ve read a number of articles and sections of books that talk about the importance of having a safe room in your home. These were books and articles that were written for preppers, so I have to wonder a bit about the writers’ motivation and thinking. While there are people who may want to consider putting a safe room in their home, preppers aren’t those people. Let me explain. The type of safe room that these people are talking about is the type that is used to retreat to in the case of a home invasion. They are essentially bullet-proof...

You can’t discuss survival too long without getting into the need to discuss firearms. While there are survival situations where a firearm is not needed, most situations are best faced with a firearm in your hands. Many of the dangers you can face in a survival situation can be eliminated or at least reduced by having a gun at hand. At times, you may not even know the problems exist, because an adversary seeing your gun decides to go another way. Firearms provide the most secure protection available. While no firearm is guaranteed to keep you alive, they do provide...

There have been countless articles and books written about every physical aspect of survival you can think of. People talk extensively about items that can be used for survival and create lists of ways that some of those items can be used. Others tell you what you need to stockpile, each one trying to outdo the next. You can learn woodcraft skills and urban survival skills all over the place, but there is one area that is seldom touched; yet it is an important area to consider. That area is the mental and emotional part of survival. While not as...

In most people's minds, the biggest issues in a post-disaster world are keeping themselves fed and having enough water. Of the two, more thought and effort is typically put into food than water, working under the assumption that water will be available from nature, either from rain or surface water (rivers, lakes, etc.). But food, other than the food we grow or stockpile will not. Those assumptions are probably fairly accurate, considering the difficulties that exist in living off the land. While early settlers in what is now the USA commonly lived off the land, they did so in a...