DIY Air Conditioners – How to Make your Own Air Conditioner

September 7, 2010 5:00 PM The California Cooler The California Cooler is a revival of an old technology driven by an insight that's overlooked in these days of engineered indoor environments: Cool air keeps things cool. In the days before refrigerators, pantries in Northern California homes had outside vents that preserved perishables throughout cool nights. Liquid-Cooled Car Seats Afraid your baby's seat is getting too hot? Dew Bucket: An Evaporative Drink Cooler Consider these two facts: Evaporation cools things, and bottles can't sweat like people. Portable Air Conditioner This is a $10 air-conditioner built around an ice chest. Garden-Watering A/C Air conditioners can dump hundreds of gallons of water each year. Homemade A/C The mastermind behind these instructions built an air conditioner to circumvent a rule in the office.

End Times Report Realistic Self-Sufficiency by Robert Wayne Atkins Realistic Self-Sufficiency: The Do's and the Don'ts Copyright © July 22, 2009 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. All rights reserved and all rights protected under international copyright law. Introduction The concept of becoming 100% self-sufficient is a very basic emotion that appeals to most people's survival instinct. It is the primary ingredient of a variety of pleasant daydreams where we picture ourselves independent of society and surviving in a comfortable although somewhat modest fashion. For example, think about your last visit to the dentist. The following comments about self-sufficiency are based on my own personal viewpoints on each of the topics. The primary problem faced by our ancestors will be the same problem we would face today if we try to become 100% self-sufficient. The following suggestions are based on the assumption of partial self-sufficiency as opposed to 100% self-sufficiency. An Early Life Lesson In Self-Sufficiency Quality and Cost Digital Copies and Printed Copies

Everything You Need to Know to Rebuild Civilization from Scratch "Everything You Need to Know to Rebuild Civilization from Scratch" Well maybe some of us don't wanna? I mean if this postapocolypse happened because of some natural disaster beyond our control, fine, I'll roll up my sleeves and do my part. But if the end times are due to our own stupidity and utter failure in wisdom, I'm not sure I wanna stand in the way of evolution, ya know? Maybe the only way to have true civilization is to rebuild it out of the ashes of the one we trashed first. Rebuilding civilization, in other words, might very well be part of our evolutionary process. Well, maybe— But the danger I see with that is that it can be used to justify something like Pol Pot's "year zero" or Robespierre's Reign of Terror: I'm all for reform and change and progress.