The Healthy Survivor - Alternative Energy

Solar and Wind Home Power

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:54:00 -0500

Wow, what a market it is in terms of solar and wind power! I always have been watching this market, but it amazes me to see how much its grown in the past couple of years and the technological advances. While there haven't been a ton of advances that have filtered down to the consumer, one day the technologies will be leveraged to our benefit. A new type of Lithium battery, that is like 5 to 10x faster to charge and also safer then standard Lithium batteries. Check it out, MIT is doing research on Lithium Nickel Manganese Oxide battery . I did a ton of searching, and no luck finding RECHARGABLE ones, just one time use ones. However, while searching I found a great diagram to help people understand the configurations and schematics of converting power and solar for home storage and AC power uses. ONce you install the solar panels and windmills, looks like there is another $2 to $3K in batteries, inverters, and charge controllers and grid-tie in inverters. However, for the small time alternative energy enthusiast check this 250W Grid Tied Inverter, which is a wall-plug in system. Could be a sweet deal, but get a bigger one, this one still will take years to pay for itself, don't fall for their, "watch the meter spin backwards" !!! YEAH Right if your whole house consists of a laptop, microwave and a clock radio!!! Geez. Before you go buying a bunch of equipment do a lot of reading. This is a great tutorial on Lead Acid batteries. They are cheapest per watt-hour. One guy to watch is the author of Urban Survival, one of his articles at Peoplenomics talks about how to set up a home back-up power to grid tie in alternative energy system. Good luck. I learned a lot today, cant' wait to build a system. Need a lot to be totally self sufficient, but you have to start somewhere. Mega Watt it! Write when you got a system going!

Work and Kitesurfing

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:51:00 -0500

Well, its my second day writing a blog, and I think I am going to like it. Its amazing to think that I always thought it would take hours to think and write a blog, but in reality it doesn't. Since most of these thoughts come to my mind during the day, you might as well write about them, right? So, today, I realized that web design, my current job. Actually, my company, but feels like a job because your clients call screaming some times. Its hard sometimes, because the client expects you to think of everthing, just because they are paying you. They expect, you to be the customer and the developer. Well thats hard, its like being right and left brain at the same time!! NO WAY!!! Geez. Anyway, with that said, I have a lot of irons in the fire, additional projects from alternative energy, to selling things I like, to a killer patent. So, since I am in the Outer banks on an alternative energy project, I had the chance to kitesurf today, 1/2 the reason I am here. It amazes me the power of the wind and water, and how insignifcant we are. The wind or water isn't going to stop for you. We think everthing in the world will, but its you and nature. You must respect it, take your time. You can't rush or manipulate the inputs or your environment, like those people, friends and business sales in the real world. The pull of the kite is so amazon, refreshing and exhilirating... Now if one could only harness the kites power and turn it into energy!! .. Hmmmm. wink More on that later. But I am removed from society, which is good and bad. All in all, its an time of growth and reflection. Shall be an interesting trip.

Welcome

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:49:00 -0500

Welcome to TheHealthySurvivor Blog!!!. Our mission is to inform you about staying healthy and surviving in these unprecedented times of economic instability, infiltrating diseases, toxic food chemicals, and politically unstable times. Don't worry this won't be a negative type blog, we are very positive people, but we are realistic on what environment we live around us. If we are to change, we need to inform first. You can't change, without a roadmap of choices. Let us be the roadmap. While many of you think that things are quite rosy, if you really look under the hood, they are not. How many times have we heard about x,y, and z being exposed or sued, because of things they had been doing maliciously for years? Well, that's just the stuff you hear about, think about all the stuff that has yet to come to light, or really has come to light, but just hasn't reached main stream media. Lets face it, there are thousands of powers to be that know that informing you will cost them money. I know, I know, people are usually honest people. Well guess what, your right. But, for example lets say you live in the 50's and all houses were made of bricks. What if you owned a brick laying company and you found out it was cheaper to make houses with wood. Would you tell everyone about it if it basically would kill your income and ruin your way of life because your factory can't switch to manufacturing wood? Of course you wouldn't. Don't you think this reasoning applies to thousands of companies? Along those lines, if Edison's original light bulb still burns today, yet light bulbs break every day, doesn't that tell you something? Things are made to break. Bottom line its all about the money. Follow the money trail, and you know the motivation. Follow us on our journey to inform. Join us in responding in kind. Community is the key. 1st post every, I think I like it. Later Sean