Life as an author.

A bad review can take the wind out of your sales... sails.

From "all of the above" to abandon all reason.

Read that the department of energy, the same people that squandered a billion on cronies at places like Solyendra, are Cutting all domestic fusion projects... to save a few hundred million, right after abandoning NASA and space.

This isnt the actions of an "all of the above" energy policy. Its a sad day for me, if this turns out to be official... and it comes only weeks after NIF announced theyd be "proof of concept" by year's end.

Their LIFE reactor that "eats" nuclear waste was my inspiration for the designs I used in Personal Space. Very sad to know we were months away from turning nuclear waste from an expensive liability to a valuable asset:(

Free book week.

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My Redneck emergency k1 cooking kit

Better picture of redneck coke can cooker

Fire Burns Down homes, so, be extremely careful and keep extinguishers or wet blankets handy!

This pic is easier to see and adjust the flames. In emergencies, a liter of lamp oil or kerosene can cook beens and rice for a week on just three wicks, but your results will be different.

If you must use inside, always keep a window open. The safest place is inside the oven. Place burner on a cookie tray of wet sand or gravel, use upper rack to position pot.

Check constantly! Never let flames get high enough to smoke. If used in oven, leave door open. Keep food covered (aluminum foil is better than nothing) to speed cooking. Also, use foil to concentrate the heat under the pot. This is easy, just wrap around pot sides, fold as needed, and affix foil 'cylinder' to thr rack under pot. When a coffee can holds up the pot, it traps the heat for you (and actually works better)

But what if you dont have kerosene or lamp oil?

Cooking oil (corn, veg, etc. Even used) will also work, but youll need more wicks for the same heat and it smells worse when it burns. Dont have that? Vasoline works too, but with it you soak the string in it, put a glob of vasoline in a tuna can, and arrange like wicks in a candle.

NEVER use gasoline!!

Redneck coke can cooker

These redneck coke can cookers can be made with simple scissors, a stappler,and some cotton string. Four burners is more than hot enough to boil water in an hour (hey, it aint a coleman)

Cut the end off, slit it down the sides, and fold over the excess. This is important, you want a lot of metal behind the piece behind the wicks. This keeps the kerosene from getting too hot (trust me, you dont want that).


Stapple the wicks in. Use aluminum from another can to make the damper bands. Thats just a piece that raps around the wick tight enough to stay up, but not so tight it doesnt move easily. Slide it closer to, the flame until it stops smoking.
A coffee can makes an excelent stand for pots.

Remember the obvious. Fire burns down houses, redneck cookers are way more dangerous, but if you are careful and desperate, they will work just fine... but check your fire extinguisher first!!!!

A better solution to emergency cooking is those little cooker cans, or a cheap oil lamp ($10 at walmart) an ideal place to cook is inside the stove under its builtin racks (always have a window open!!!)