FREELY DOWNLOAD, SAVE, PRINT OUT AND SHARE THE PROJECTS AND ESSAYS ON THIS LIST | ||||||
This is an exploratory work, and I am not responsible for anything anyone does as a result of reading or using the information referenced here. Readers must use their own best judgment in duplicating or depending upon any of the projects or concepts included in this collection. | ||||||
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Those with alternative sources of shelter, water, food and energy are less controlled by political and economic extremes. These are also able to help others in need. Developing skills in local sustainability empowers people to thrive in chaotic times. Create an off grid lifestyle in your own backyard or other property as an oasis of freedom. |
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STRUCTURES | ||||||
01010 | Any-stick dome | A dome from junk | ||||
01020 | Durable covering cheap, durable | For covering structures and underground membranes | ||||
01040 | Bolt-together frames | Basics of building and covering bolt-together frames | ||||
01045 | Dome windows | External lighting and views for fabric covered structures | ||||
01050 | Dome, 10’ diameter on posts | This one used for bathing at an off grid encampment | ||||
01080 | Dome, 16’8” diameter 210 sq.ft. | Economical, versatile, reusable frame can be built in a day | ||||
01200 | Parabolic domes | Width and height can be increased indefinitely | ||||
01220 | Dome, parabolic 20’ x 10’ high | I use it for my winter backyard studio | ||||
01330 | Parabolic, 28’ 14’ high, 615 sq. ft. | Central structure at an off-grid encampment | ||||
01300 | Low profile domes 24 ft dia., | 450 sq.ft; height=radius/2 | ||||
01360 | 30 foot low profile dome 707 sq.ft | Calculations plus assembly notes | ||||
01210 | Dome Worksheet | Add radius and chord factors to calculate any size dome | ||||
01375 | Wired tubes Minimum tooling | Build structures out of tube & wire with hacksaw & pliers | s | |||
Wire structures | contents | |||||
01510 | 7’6” wire shelter frame ht.=rad./2 | Dome frame weighs 8.5 lbs. Complete frame=24 lbs. | ||||
01520 | The Cozy 7-1/2 diameter shelter | Includes a stove built into the floor | ||||
01630 | Oval wire dome, 10x20x2.5 | A complex disaster – but an interesting story | ||||
Other shapes | ||||||
01660 | Hyperboloid | A tubular structure with a gracefully varying diameter | ||||
01690 | Hyperbolic paraboloid | A strong and graceful roof structure | ||||
01700 | Trihyperbolicparaboloid | Hexagonal roof form supported on three posts | ||||
01810 | Decks from scraps | Use short pieces of recycled material to span large areas | ||||
01830 | Hex8: Wooden structure | Hexagonal office space with sleeping loft, 8 ft. diameter | ||||
01840 | Hex12 Wooden structure | Hexagonal building with upstairs desk, 12’ diameter | ||||
01900 | Earth materials | A few more tips on what not to try | ||||
WATER | ||||||
02010 | Water intro | Critical things to keep in mind concerning this need | ||||
02040 | A 30 gallon tank | A clean trash can can be an economical tank’ | ||||
02100 | Stills | One means of purifying water | ||||
02110 | Distilling sea water (theory) | Wave & tide energy assist water pumping and distillation | ||||
02120 | Well pumps | Some of my semi-successful DIY attempts | ||||
02130 | Cistern pump | Creative improvements applied in a developing nation | ||||
02140 | Atmospheric pump graphic | Uses thermal energy to pump water in 15.7gal tank | ||||
02160 | Cistern under garden (theory) | Developing a complete sustainable food+water system | ||||
02170 | Wells | Boring shallow wells from commonly available hardware | ||||
03010 | FOOD | |||||
03230 | High density garden | Gardening techniques that can multiply productivity | ||||
03235 | Water saving garden | Combine water saving techniques for optimum savings | ||||
03040 | Trench format garden | Facilitate mechanization of a captive water table garden | ||||
03050 | Extreme water saving garden | |||||
03051 | Quanset frost cover | Simple cold weather protection | ||||
03060 | Water table, circle graphic | Captive water table for ¼ acre, ½ acre), and 1 acre circles | ||||
03240 | High density garden tools | Special tools for high density gardens and water savings | ||||
03250 | Compost Comfort Lazy & efficient | Keep the nutrients of fall leaves in your own soil | ||||
04010 | Lighting | How light is used greatly affects the amount needed | ||||
04030 | Electrical | There are more ways to do this than most realize | ||||
ENERGY – FIRE | ||||||
05005 | Keeping warm | Structure features that can reduce the energy needed | ||||
05030 | Using wood stoves | Important installation considerations | ||||
05040 | Basic stove | Cheap to build, highly efficient, eco-friendly | ||||
05045 | Dome flue exit Graphic | http://technosmith.com/contents/05045-dome flue exit.JPG | ||||
05050 | The Dragon Under $40 in 2022 | A small, cheap high-efficiency wood stove | ||||
05060 | Small boiler | Attached to “Dragon” to heat water and produce steam | ||||
05080 | Stove with reflector | Great for heating patio area | ||||
05100 | Retrofit wood stove | Efficient, clean, installed in existing fireplace | ||||
05110 | Small forced air heater | Shroud a “Basic stove” and force air through it | ||||
05120 | Prunings burner.pdf | Clean efficient disposal of orchard waste | ||||
05140 | Rammed Earth Stove | Build from highly compressed earth with tiny % cement | ||||
05150 | Cottage kiln | Wood fired production of art and utility objects | ||||
COOKING | ||||||
05200 | Why a cook stove out of mud | Fuel efficient, smokeless solution to primitive kitchens | ||||
05210 | Small stove carved into the earth | “little mud” | ||||
05225 | Backyard stove | Cook outdoors during the summer | ||||
05230 | StoveTopOven | Invented to cook a girlfriend’s birthday cake | ||||
05240 | Cook stove from a scrap of pipe | You can’t make an efficient stove more easily than this | ||||
05250 | Cardboard cooker solar power | An easy and cheap way to “crock pot” anything | ||||
SOLAR + | ||||||
05300 | Introduction to solar | There are more options in solar than most realize | ||||
05340 | SolarHeatedAir | Greatly increase efficiency of solar heated air | ||||
05350 | Solar Hot Water | Economical way to heat your above ground pool | ||||
05360 | Heliostat | A high-tech device with many possibilities | ||||
05380 | Wind | Generally inconsistent and seasonal, but great in places | ||||
MANIPULATING ENERGY | ||||||
05410 | The Energy Tree | Opportunities and pitfalls | ||||
05415 | Perpetual motion of fools | Fun projects for those who love to fail | ||||
05420 | Reality for the masses | If you have dumb friends, this helps you recognize them | ||||
05430 | StoringEnergy | There are more ways to do this than you might think | ||||
05450 | Pumping heat | Using mechanical energy you can make hot or cold | ||||
05470 | Energy systems | Managing of energy sources, storage, and conversion | ||||
05480 | Heat powered engines | Converting thermal energy into mechanical energy | ||||
See 05060-Small Boiler | Attachment to dragon for heating water or making steam | |||||
05500 | Steam engine 3 moving parts | I made this public domain so no one could patent it | ||||
05510 | Stirling | World’s most efficient engine was invented by a minister | ||||
05520 | Check Valve Power | Concept engine – also intentionally in the public domain | ||||
05525 | Stirling data table | Calculates available outputs under various conditions | ||||
05530 | Wet Stirling | Yet another creative way to create mechanical energy | ||||
05540 | Odd engines | Creative applications from simple physics | ||||
05560 | Jet engine in my house | Another don’t anyone (else) try this at home story | ||||
05600 | Refrigeration | Various ways to cool things | ||||
05620 | Linked Stirling | Yet another way to pump heat | ||||
05630 | Storing cool | More refrigeration basics | ||||
05650 | Ice chest air | Forced air cooling invented during an emergency | ||||
05660 | The Cool Earth | http://technosmith.com/contents/05660-cool%20earth.pdf | ||||
06000 | TRANSPORTATION | Avoiding petroleum and expenses relating to cars | ||||
06010 | Recycling cart | A stronger, larger and legal alternative to grocery carts | ||||
06030 | MobileHomeless | Made for a homeless friend who lived in it for 5 years | ||||
06040 | Folding bike graphic | Needed a compact bike to store under my desk at work | ||||
06050 | Compact bike graphic | For awhile I had a $100 bounty on the first one to ride it. | ||||
6060 | Bike in Berkeley video – .avi | My friends in Berkeley couldn’t figure it out either | ||||
HEALTH | ||||||
08020 | Bath pan | Cheap, lightweight, answer to bathing, or laundry | ||||
08040 | 6” auger | Use for well or toilet pit | ||||
08050 | 8” auger | Use for toilet pit or well | ||||
08070 | Off Grid Toilets | A radical sanitation improvement over existing practices | ||||
08110 | Low tech composting toilet | A clean and simple solution to a need we all have | ||||
MORE | ||||||
09010 | home sheetmetal basics | Simple techniques to equip you to solve many problems | ||||
09020 | Splitting rocks | Not everyone needs this – but I did, so here it is | ||||
09030 | Petro chemical replacement | Introduction to a science to reduce need of petroleum | ||||
09040 | Starting car with a weak battery | Answer to a desperate need one stranded freezing morning | ||||
09050 | stepper motor from alternator | I needed to computer-control something in small steps | ||||
10010 | Enterprise | |||||
COMMUNITY CONCEPTS | ||||||
13040 | The Jesus Camp | technosmith.com/contents/13040-jesus camp.pdf | ||||
11510 | Changes – graphic | technosmith.com/contents/11510-changes.jpg | ||||
11520 | Appropriate infrastructure | technosmith.com/contents/11520-a infrastructure.jpg | ||||
11530 | Liability form – initial draft | This is only a draft; has not been reviewed by a lawyer | ||||
11540 | Technology costs | Save to downloads to update costs on material (mat) sheet | ||||
PRESENTATIONS | http://technosmith.com/contents/11540-catalog.xlsx | |||||
12560 | Starter Camp | |||||
12530 | Homeless action items | power point presentation | ||||
12540 | Global warming | A power point presentation summary on global warming | ||||
12010 | Hexagon display maze | 49 panels, 30x22.7 feet of creative display maze | ||||
12012 | Small display maze | 26 panels, 20 x 21 feet | ||||
ESSAYS and OPINIONS | ||||||
13010 | Local supply chain | Reduce dependence upon resources you cannot control | ||||
13015 | Quantum Questions | Examining the glue that holds us together | ||||
13020 | Prove Me Wrong (quantum physics) | Reconsidering theories about gravity and light | ||||
13030 | News Media | How to analyze news media bias | ||||
13090 | American Preppers | A history of American Prepper mentality | ||||
OUTLAW UNIVERSE | ||||||
13060 | The Outlaw Universe | The physical universe has a message for us | ||||
13061 | Introduction to Christianity | For those to whom it would matter if God existed | ||||
13062 | God’s kingdom (Until Pentecost) | The culture that quietly inherits all | ||||
13063 | The Church Until Now | What’s changed since Pentecost; Plus seven churches | ||||
13065 | The Rogue Empire | The Defeat Of The Dragon (The final 3-1/2 years) | ||||
13100 | Candor | An off-grid adventure novel – Free read and download | ||||
13120 | ||||||
13200 | Approaching Final Days | |||||
13210 | Event Matrix .pdf format | A spreadsheet relating end-times subjects to Bible references | ||||
13311 | End Times Subjects | |||||
13150 | Revelation Commentary | Revelation, as explained only by other verses in this work | ||||
13330 | Revelation 12 | http://technosmith.com/contents/13330-rev12.pdf | ||||
13130 | A Modern Bible Translation (ASV) | A free download of the entire Bible in public domain | ||||
http://technosmith.com/contents/13420-stumbling.pdf | ||||||
13420 | Stumbling Along | With the God who loves, forgives, and protects | ||||
Samples of books in print | ||||||
13530 | + | Expatriates of Babylon – First five pages of part 1 in trilogy | Homeless people develop mutually helpful relationships with mainstream society. | |||
13540 | + | Arland – First seven pages of part 2 in trilogy | A futuristic village is developed in a desert canyon. | |||
13550 | + | The Livewood – First eleven pages of part 3 in trilogy | The Livewood establishes colonies of people in different parts of the Solar System, to preserve the human race. | |||
http://www.lulu.com/shop/william-huff/expatriates-of-babylon/paperback/product-22307591.html | ||||||
https://www.lulu.com/shop/william-huff/arland/paperback/product-23471631.html | ||||||
https://www.lulu.com/shop/william-huff/the-livewood/paperback/product-22558115.html | ||||||
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Access to books in print | ||||||
Surviving the Streets and Future: This is a hard copy compendium of the technical section of my web page – Since most of its contents are available at technosmith.com | ||||||
Expatriates of Babylon: Part one of a fiction trilogy. A resourceful individual winds up homeless following a layoff. He develops a new quality of life for street survival and interfacing with society. | ||||||
Arland: Part two of trilogy; Modified biosphere technology begins to grow locally sustainable communities in Arizona deserts. | ||||||
The Livewood: Part three of trilogy. A rebellious student finds his path in a project to develop space colonies. This one starts in New Mexico, but eventually gets off the ground. | ||||||
Avoiding Deception: Exposes corruption in the early church and today, as revealed by the Bible. | ||||||
Journeys of the Heart: Nonfiction poetry and adventure that is born of real life experiences | ||||||