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Solar thermal energy and electricity from solar power

In recent years, the factors that can lead to a crisis have dramatically increased which will affect how we live in a small or large extent, in long or even short term:

The destruction of the environment, climate change, global warming, energy crisis, oil prices, asymmetric threats, terrorism, earthquakes, floods, fires, strikes or any major damage to the power grid are among the factors that may affect the way of life, even to the point of our survival, if we are unprepared.

Usually, the problems we must face have to do with the electricity, drinking water and cooking, lighting, communications and transportation. In the section survival without electricity after natural disasters will be continuously added new articles that will meet precisely these needs. More specifically, how can solar energy and electricity from solar panels can help in this direction.

1. Solar Electric Bicycle: The electric assisted bicycle which can move with solar energy too! This article describes an easy and economic transformation of a normal bicycle to an electric bicycle driven by solar energy, with electricity from the grid, but also as a normal bicycle. It responds to the problem of movement where there is no possibility of using other means of transportation (e.g. lack of fuel or inaccessible roads).
2. The portable solar power generator of electricity from solar energy responds to the need for electricity after a power failure or a blackout that usually is followed after a disaster. It covers the need for lighting, the need for information (TV and radio), the need for emergency communications (to charge the cell phones for our family) and the use of small power tools and equipments.
3. The solar cooker: This article describes the easy (and inexpensive) construction of a small solar cooker made from wood, which will be able to cook any food as a conventional oven, except that it will not need electricity, only a little sunshine (even in winter)! In addition, it will be able to convert to drinking water, water that normally would not be appropriate (even seawater).
4. The diy solar air heater: Heating a room with solar energy...