Those with alternative sources of shelter, water, food and energy are less controlled by politicians and bankers. Creating a sustainable infrastructure in your backyard can protect your future and help others in need. |
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Readers must use their own best judgment in duplicating or depending upon, any of these projects. | ||||||
# | Rev | Title | Comment | |||
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 | ||||
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 | ||||
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 | ||||||
01510 | 7’6” wire shelter frame ht.=rad./2 | Dome frame weighs 8.5 lbs. Covered frame weighs 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 (carport) | ||||
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 | ||||
03050 | Water saving gardens | Build a remote garden supplied by water that can be hauled | ||||
03080 | One Day Garden Sustainable food | Don’t hoard; plant a small garden each day | ||||
03040 | Trench format garden | Facilitate mechanization of a captive water table garden | ||||
03051 | Quanset frost cover | Simple cold weather protection | ||||
03250 | Compost Comfort Lazy & efficient | Keep the nutrients of fall leaves in your own soil | ||||
03310 | Butt Cart A garden low-rider | |||||
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 | |||||
LIFESTYLES | ||||||
13040 | The Jesus Camp | technosmith.com/contents/13040-jesus camp.pdf | ||||
11010 | Portable cottage | Montana de oro | ||||
11020 | How to sleep in your garden | 8’ diameter 50+ square foot dwelling within garden | ||||
11025 | More room in garden | 12’ diameter 100+ sq.ft. (room for 2) Living in food source | ||||
11030 | Context of ministry | Living a life that makes sense | ||||
12560 | Starter Camp (infrastructure) | |||||
11530 | Liability form – initial draft | This is only a draft; has not been reviewed by a lawyer | ||||
PRESENTATIONS | ||||||
11510 | Changes – graphic | |||||
12530 | Homeless action items | power point presentation | ||||
12010 | Hexagon display maze | 49 panels, 30x22.7 feet of creative display maze | ||||
12012 | Small display maze | 26 panels, 20 x 21 feet | ||||
12210 | One Page Entros | Single page descriptions of included concepts | ||||
ESSAYS and OPINIONS | ||||||
13005 | Stereotypes | |||||
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 | Basic understandings that unite all Christians | ||||
13063 | The Christian Culture | Who we are since Pentecost | ||||
13062 | God’s kingdom (Until Pentecost) | The culture that quietly inherits all | ||||
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 | Poetry that happened | Stories from life, expressed in poetic format | ||||
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 Commentary | http://technosmith.com/contents/13330-rev12.pdf | ||||
13130 | A Modern Bible Translation (ASV) | A free download of the entire Bible in public domain | ||||
13420 | Adventures Have you ever….? | Very brief stories of insane situations including 50ft waves, motorcycles,war,wild dogs,a demon,a rattlesnake,wild bears,etc | ||||
Books In Print | ||||||
13530 | + | Expatriates of Babylon Sample, first five pages Purchase link 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. | |||
13540 | Arland Sample, first seven pages Purchase link Arland | Part two of trilogy; Modified biosphere technology begins to grow locally sustainable communities in Arizona deserts. | ||||
13550 | The Livewood description 13551 Sample, first eleven pages Purchase link 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. | ||||
Surviving the Streets an Future Purchase link Surviving the Streets and Future: | This is a hard copy compendium of the technical section of my web page. Most of its projects and many more are available for free at technosmith.com | |||||
Journeys of the Heart Purchase link Journeys of the Heart: | Nonfiction poetry that is born of real life experiences. This is followed by a series of true stories of adventures that inspired the poetry. | |||||
Avoiding Deception Purchase link Avoiding Deception | Exposes corruption in the early church and today, as revealed by the Bible. | |||||
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 | ||||||
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 | ||||||