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It might look a bit primitive and simplistic, but it is 400 times more cost effective than photovoltaics – and that’s if you buy one ready made. If you recycle, it’s basically free.<\/div>\n

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All you need is:<\/div>\n

2 cardboard boxes – one a little smaller than the other<\/li>\n

a knife<\/li>\n

black spray paint<\/li>\n

aluminium foil<\/li>\n

glue<\/li>\n

duct tape<\/li>\n

insulation \/ packing material<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
In terms of scavenging, a supermarket or hardware store, and a dumpster are about all you’d need to source the above items.<\/div>\n
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Here’s the official site<\/a> – if you want you could just buy a few to add to your supplies. Over at How Stuff Works<\/a> is a video demonstrating it.<\/div>\n
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If anything good ever comes from the poverty in Africa, it’s the recent ingenious inventions providing self-help at affordable prices. Although the aim is to provide cooking\/boiling facilities for the poor, this is a great concept for a post-cataclysm scenario. The parts are easily scavenged, and most people would have the skills to construct a Kyoto Box. Therefore boiling water and cooking food should be easy to achieve for just about anyone.<\/p>\n
It might look a bit primitive and simplistic, but it is 400 times more cost effective than photovoltaics – and that’s if you buy one ready made. If you recycle, it’s basically free.<\/p>\n
All you need is:<\/p>\n
2 cardboard boxes – one a little smaller than the other
\na knife
\nblack spray paint
\naluminium foil
\nglue
\nduct tape
\ninsulation \/ packing material<\/p>\n
In terms of scavenging, a supermarket or hardware store, and a dumpster are about all you’d need to source the above items.<\/p>\n
Here’s the official site – …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}