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Family road trips or relaxing drives can be a great way to spend time during the summer, but they can also be cause for serious security concerns. On long summer drives, people are more likely to be tired behind the wheel, road collisions and breakdowns on the highway during the summer months are becoming far too common. If you’re serious about preparing for the worst in any situation, then you’ve probably got plenty of supplies at home and plenty of precautions and scenarios you run through on a daily basis, but have you considered your car?

A year ago, I started paying more attention to national and international news, especially with the upcoming presidential election. I began asking questions, researching on line about what the economic outlook REALLY is—not what mainstream media pumps out to the masses. The world economic future isn’t looking very promising!

Who are the great thinkers of history? Aristotle. Newton. DaVinci. These names quickly come to mind. There were many, many others as well. Some names we may recognize. Others may have been forgotten by history. Still throughout the ages, men and women have challenged conventional wisdom and have thought deeply about the questions that consumed […]

This is the final post in a three part series on solar electricity. In part 1, I discussed solar power and how solar panels work. In the second part, I showed how you can calculate how much power you’ll need and how many solar panels will be required to fulfill than demand. In this last post, I’ll describe how to mount and wire your solar panels.

Most people have never had to live off the grid unless they were primitive camping; and even then it was probably only for a weekend. But for some of us people planning to use our yachts as a refuge for when the SHTF, using solar is already being practiced. Some of us have already taken the steps necessary to keep the power flowing; we have built our own power grid. We have tested it in the actual real world environment and have been using it when we are away from the dock for pleasure, so we know the application and technology works.