Adrian

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Name: Adrian Hannah
Date registered: March 15, 2010

Latest posts

  1. Found on the Internet: How to Weld — April 23, 2013
  2. Found on the Internet: Map of the Dead — April 17, 2013
  3. Found on the Internet: How to Make Rope — March 5, 2013
  4. How to Make Soap — February 18, 2013
  5. How to Make Biodiesel — January 29, 2013

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Apr 23

Found on the Internet: How to Weld

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Despite my penchant for post-apocalyptic knowledge, I’m still a huge geek at heart.  I watch a lot of youtube videos and spend a lot of time on the internet.  I’ve watched Geek Beat TV since it was Geek Brief and recently they’ve been branching out to things not so tech related.  For instance, the above …

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Apr 17

Found on the Internet: Map of the Dead

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Zombies!

If you haven’t been under a rock for the last 5 years, you’ve been privy to (or involved in) the zombie apocalypse craze.    People are fascinated with what would happen in a zombie apocalypse.  How would it spread?  How would you survive? The website Map of the Dead gives you some answers.  On a …

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Mar 05

Found on the Internet: How to Make Rope

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You can always use more rope, and if you know how to make it you have as much rope as you need to do anything.  In the BBC series Edwardian Farm, they show how to make rope: You can always use more rope, and if you know how to make it you have as much …

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Feb 18

How to Make Soap

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If you haven’t noticed in my writing, I’m very much against being wasteful.  At home, I hate making food from a recipe where you only use a part of something and throw the rest out.  When I explained how to make biodiesel I briefly noted that you could use the leftover glycerin to make all …

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Jan 29

How to Make Biodiesel

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Biodiesel and Glycerine separated into layers

Traditional diesel fuel is made from petroleum, and in a post-apocalyptic world that will be hard to come by.  Thankfully, biodiesel is an alternative that can be made from any organic oil or fat that doesn’t require any kind of modification to your diesel engine. Generally, you are adding a catalyst to a triglyceride-rich liquid …

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Dec 06

How to Distill Alcohol, part 3: How to Make Methanol

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Methanol, or methyl alcohol, can be used primarily as a fuel source or feedstock (a chemical used to make another chemical).  For our purposes, we can either use it to fuel cars, trucks generators, etc. or to create biodiesel (both very useful in a post-Apocalyptic world).  In this part of our series on alcohol distillation, …

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Dec 05

How to Distill Alcohol, Part 2: How to Make Ethanol

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In Part 1 of this article series, I showed you how to make your still.  In this part, we go over the specfics of how to make actual ethanol, or ethyl alcohol. Ethanol is most commonly known for being the ingestable alcohol in liquor, but there are plenty of uses for it aside from drinking.  …

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Dec 04

How to Distill Alcohol, Part 1: How to Make a Still

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Moonshine-Still

Generally, when people think of a still, they think of liquor or moonshine.  While being able to make these items in a post-Apocalyptic world can make things easier for you.  A still can be used to make other products as well (all alcohol related, but more useful than drinking). Basically, a still is just a …

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Nov 16

Found on the Internet: The Open Source Ecology

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Have you ever wondered what kind of equipment you might need to start rebuilding civilization after an apocalyptic event?  The Open Source Ecology is a project that is working on creating just that.  The folks at Open Source Ecology are going about designing 50 fundamental machines to sustain a small civilization, and open sourcing the …

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Nov 01

Found on the Internet: Bear Grylls Survival Academy

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Bear Grylls, of Man Vs Wild fame, has opened his own survival school!  It is currently a 6 day course held in the wilds of Scotland.  Classes are limited size and teach you survival techniques like making a fire in the pouring rain, building lifesaving emergency shelters, training in knife skills, foraging for grubs and …

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