Bottle cutting with solar power.Also forced air heating with bottles.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP40BDFF1cQ  triffid
BE SURE TO SEE THE VIDEO ALL THE WAY TO THE END.

Quote from: triffid on April 26, 2011, 10:31:37 AM
I went yesterday to check on my house that is three miles away from the airport here in st.Louis and found no damage from high winds.There was tornado damage to areas two miles away from my house.This terrible weather is not over yet.There were seven tornados south of dallas,texas last night.triffid

Unfortunately, spring is just getting into full swing, and this is a really bad year for floods and tornadoes.  Is your house near a creek or river?  The Missouri or Mississippi?

Levees are overflowing in the upper Midwest.  Very Serious!

--Lee

No my house is not near a creek or river.The mississippi is about 8 miles away I think.Today Im looking at a bunch of heirloom seeds my brother bought a year and a half ago but never planted.Since they are that old I expect about 70% or higher are still viable.triffid

Quote from: triffid on April 27, 2011, 09:48:07 AM
No my house is not near a creek or river.The mississippi is about 8 miles away I think.Today Im looking at a bunch of heirloom seeds my brother bought a year and a half ago but never planted.Since they are that old I expect about 70% or higher are still viable.triffid

A wildlife documentary on the Discovery Chanel or something like that years ago, had bristlecone pine seeds that were saved and preserved for, say,  50+ yrs.  They all germinated when planted.
New seeds from recent pine cones failed to germinate about 30% of the time.  The point was:  Pollution now was worse now than it was 50 yrs. ago, obviously.

It was an object lesson.  Are your seeds healthy?

--Lee

I hope so.they are from Big John Lipscomb's survivalist seeds bank.I have seen his video on secret gardens.And water filtering.Take a look at this piece of disturbing news.Never mind the money going bust.In 2008, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began a five-year grant program designed to "promote innovative ideas in global health." The first batch of $100,000 grants included a proposal "to turn mosquitoes that normally transmit disease into 'flying syringes,' so that when they bite humans they deliver vaccines."Flying syringes!
What could POSSIBLY go wrong with THAT idea!?
To Your Good Health, triffid