The Survival Podcast
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.comSERIES: TSP
EPISODE: 873
DATE: April 4, 2012
TITLE: EPISODE-873- STEVEN HARRIS ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES PART 2
SOURCE FILE:
http://www.survivalpodcast.net/audio/2012/4-12/epi-00873-steve-harris-on-energy-part-2.mp3FILE ARCHIVE:
http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/harris-on-alternative-energy-part-2DESCRIPTION:
Steven Harris returns to TSP for his 7th visit. Today he joins us to discuss various alternative energy technologies including, ethanol, bio diesel, methanol, propane and more.
Steven Harris is a consultant and expert in the field of energy. He is the founder and CEO of Knowledge Publications, the largest energy only publishing company in the USA.
Mr. Harris came to his current position to do full time work on the development and implementation of hydrogen, biomass and solar related energy systems after spending 10 years in the Aero-Thermal Dynamics department of the Scientific Labs of Chrysler Corporation.
Steve is always full of great ideas, knowledge and projects we can use to improve our personal energy independence and today is no exception. Once again we ate up the entire hour with out covering Steve’s entire outline so he will be back for Part 3 in this series soon.
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Solar1234.com – Get info on all Steven’s Sites
http://www.solar1234.com/IMakeMyGas.com – This is for the small still, currently sold out.
http://imakemygas.com/The Three Book Deal Steven Put Together for TSP (remember MSB get an additional 15% off) -http://www.ush2.com/tsp_solar_book_special.htm
Steve on Facebook -
http://www.facebook.com/pages/KnowledgePublications-wwwUSH2com/115123165250360?sk=wallINTRO & CLOSING SONG:
“Revolution is You” by Gregg Yows
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Jack Spirko: Hi, folks, this is Jack Spirko with another edition of the Survival Podcast. As always, one man's view of the changing world, the changing times and the things we can all do to live a better life if times get tough or even if they don't. Coming to you once again from Hot Springs Village, Arkansas, high atop the Highway 7 ridge line from TSPN. That's the Survival Podcast Network headquarters, a/k/a, The Ant Hill. Today is April the 4th, 2012, and this is Episode 873 of the Survival Podcast, and it is a Wednesday. We're on hump day on the way over. Got a great guest for you returning for his 7th appearance, Mr. Steven Harris, guru of all things. I shouldn't even say alternative energy, but guru of all things energy and home-brewed energy. I'm going to have him on in just a minute. Let's go ahead and take care of our sponsors first. Sponsor of the day number one, Bulkammo.com. Your gun with no ammo is what? That's right. An overpriced club. That's all it is. You might as well have a baseball bat rather than a gun. I guess you could pawn it or hawk it or barter with it and give it away, but without ammo, it really doesn't serve you any purpose. And not only do you need enough ammo to use it, let's say, tomorrow if somebody kicked your door in. You need enough ammo to be able to train with it effectively to make sure that you're able to revert to your highest level of training in a crisis situation. Get on over to Bulk Ammo, you'll get incredible pricing, lightning fast shipping, and all the common calibers are sitting there waiting for you to buy from them. Check them out today. Remember, they do offer a special deal to Member's Support Brigade members. Before you buy from Bulk Ammo, if you're MSB, do check out the MSB first and see what kind of discount that they offer you. Next up today, Murs Radio. Now, what I love about Murs is, first of all, you can buy and use it out of the box without having to get a license or anything like that. Second of all, it gives you a really great high-quality level of communications in, let's say, a neighborhood-sized area, a mile or two, and it just works great. Five frequencies and five sub-frequencies. It's easy to find a frequency if there does happen to be another Murs user near you that they're not using so that you can keep your communications to yourself and not be interfered with by other people's communications. Then add to that you can get these motion detectors and you can put them out on your property and they'll send your handheld or your base station something that sounds kind of like this: "Alert Sector 1, Alert Sector 1" when it detects movement or heat where that detector is. This could be used to find out what's, I don't know, digging up stuff in your garden at night so you can put a bullet in it because that's what's about to happen at my place. I had something dig out a lavender plant last night. It looked like a person did it. I'm thinking it was a masked bandit raccoon. He might be raccoon stew if this keeps up, and Murs might help me get him. It would also let me know if somebody out there like a two-legged rat was walking around and I needed to know that as well. Murs secondary communication plus security, one package, awesome stuff. Check it out. Rob over there that runs Murs -- and it's murs-radio.com. There's a dash in there. And the best way to make sure you don't have to worry about that, go to Survival Podcast, click on the banner. Rob, who runs that company, he only has like a dozen products. If you don't know what you need, if you're not sure, pick the phone up and call Rob. He will get back to you. He may not get back to you during business hours because he also works a job. This is why I love what I do. I get to help small business people that are building something further for themselves at the same time they're working for somebody. He'll get back to you. He'll call you. He speaks English, right? He knows what he's doing and he will say here's what you need and this is what it does. Sometimes you might say, you know what, to increase your range, you might want an external antenna from the one you're going to keep in your vehicle. Here's where you can buy one. I don't sell that. This is the best price. Or he might say, you know what, for what you want to do, my equipment's not right for you. Here's where I think you should go. That's an honest businessperson. He's built a great business because of that. Check him out today, murs-radio.com. Next up, I want to thank everybody that e-mailed me yesterday. I couldn't get back to everybody because I'm stuck on my iPhone while I'm still trying to get my stuff fixed from Wild Blue, a listener out there that actually does contract work for Wild Blue or is a re-seller. I'm not sure. I'm going to find out more because he's really helped me out. Got somebody to come out there yesterday. The guy was there for like seven hours and couldn't fix the problem. It needs a different part. I don't know. He's coming back this afternoon, at least that's the story. We'll get my internet back. But I didn't have internet up. What everybody was getting in touch with me about yesterday was their concern for my family that was down in Dallas yesterday obviously my son, my wife's family basically and my son. The tornado that hit down there in the, let's say the Kennedale / South Mansfield / South Arlington area. Actually went right by everybody. In fact, if you actually were to look at a map of like where my sister-in-law lives, my other sister-in-law lives, my son lives, and my father-in-law lives, there's like this alley. The tornado literally went through that alley. It just missed them completely. The apartments down the street from where my son lives were just devastated and his were untouched. We had thought that his apartments were hit based on reports that came in from the area. It ended up being this other complex. He was actually paying for his vehicle tags, and he was in a really safe, big, heavy government building when the tornadoes were hitting. I guess paying your taxes in one instance actually paid off, at least for him. Thanks to everybody that asked. I didn't get back to you because it was just too many people to be trying to answer on an iPhone, and I was still getting information as this was going on. I mean, if you watched the Weather Channel or anything yesterday you know. Any folks down there in that area that were affected, man, our heart goes out to you. I think there's going to be a lot of relief effort in the area. The one thing about a big metro area like Dallas is unless you take everything out, there's plenty of people to move in and help once the stuff clears. I know for instance, my brother-in-law who is a police officer in Grand Prairie, pretty much spent the entire night working mutual aid calls with adjoining cities. There's a lot of support there. It doesn't look like it was anywhere near the devastation that occurred to places like, you know, Birmingham last year. It looked like we had a lot of touch-and-go action. The tornadoes were significant. There was footage many of you may have seen already where it hit a Flying J truck stop and a truck yard next to it. It was throwing tractor-trailers up into the air like toys. That was some pretty impressive evidence that there are some dangerous things out there. We need to be prepared as possible. Once again, I listened to the frickin newscasters telling everybody to go in their basement. I just want to scream, "No one in north Texas anyway that I know of has a frickin basement, you tools!" And then telling people, "If there's a tornado, get out of your car. Don't stay in your vehicle." Well, I guess if it's on a direct course for you and you can't get away, then maybe there's a building somewhere, but you know, what are you supposed to do? I think that we need better planning for what to do in the case of a tornado. I think the talking heads on the TV do a good job of warning us and telling us where it is coming, but telling people what to do I don't think is really a great idea. If you're mobile in your car and you can keep moving and you see a tornado moving a certain way and you can move the other way, stay in your car and do that. If it's coming down the road following the road like a train behind you and you're trying to outrun it, odds are you're not going to outrun it. You need to find some way to get out of the pathway. In that case, they're right. But in some other instances, what they say just doesn't make sense. When they advise people in mobile homes get out of your mobile home and go to a sturdy building. What if there's not a sturdy building around there? That means some of us need to think about putting in better tornado shelters, myself included. Every once in a while, nature gives us a wake-up call. Thank you all of you that inquired about what was going on and know that the reason I didn't get back yesterday was because I just didn't have the logistics. I was also concerned in making sure everybody was okay. Frankly, by the time I was sure everybody was okay, I had a couple drinks and took a nap on the couch. Because you get the adrenaline up, then when the adrenaline goes down, you're done. I know that goes long, but I just want to say that. Remember also you guys could connect to me on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. Do that at the site. Member's Support Brigade, I'm not going to say much about that because Steven actually kind of really sold it harder than I ever do in the interview. I will just say about the Member's Support Brigade right now before we get into the interview, if you are military, law enforcement, or Peace Corps, active duty, prior service, please e-mail me before you join. First responders like fire and EMS, I do that discount for you guys as well. Just put something like service discount in your subject line and e-mail me, Jack@thesurvivalpodcast.com and I'll send you your special service discount. All right, with that, it gives me great pleasure this time to welcome back the guru of all things energy and becoming one of my good friends, Steven Harris. I want to tell you that in the first, I'd say, 10 to 15 minutes in this interview, you're going to hear him talk an awful lot about one of his products. Almost to the point where you might go, "this sounds a little infomercial-ish." You know, if you've listened to the show for a long time then you know I don't let that go on. If you're a new listener, just trust me, I don't let that go on. You might wonder why I would let Steve do this and it is because he's not really selling. He's just very excited about what he's put together. The other reason I'm willing to do this is because he's had this product with this little still that you can put on your table for a long time. It's a great product. I've used it myself. It works. When it first came out, it was at one level of performance and there were other things you needed to get for yourself and there were other hurdles to get over. Then he did things like brought the Zeolite to it, that actually lets you get the last bit of water out of the ethanol and makes it immediately usable as fuel in a vehicle. Then he's got something I'll let him talk about today that makes the whole process even easier. It reduces the amount of energy and work and time and inconvenience necessary to produce your own fuel. At this point, a person really can with nothing more than a few watts of electricity go find places like doughnut shops that are throwing away doughnuts or bread shops that are throwing away bread and use a five-gallon bucket and no heat source and turn out two gallons or four gallons. It depends on how many stills you want to run of fuel a week, for pennies on the dollar. That's why I'm going to let him spend a little bit more time on that. I just wanted to give some clarification on that. One final thing before I bring Steven on, at one point in the call, let's say about 15 minutes in I think, or maybe 10 minutes, you're going to hear distinctive change in the fidelity of Steve's voice. He'll still be very clear, very easy to understand, but he's going to go from, you know, that deep, good fidelity that you get on a good microphone to the less fidelity you get on a telephone. We had some kind of headache yesterday with his internet connection that he would be talking and saying, "Well, Jack, see what you do is you take the bucket and... then you... and you see." That just doesn't work. We stopped the call after several attempts to fix the problem and just brought him in by phone. You'll hear that point. Don't think anything's gone wrong with your speakers or anything. It was the best we could do under the circumstances. With that, again, I want to welcome back one of my good friends for his, I believe, 7th appearance, right, Steven?
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Steven Harris: 7th appearance, an all-time record holder for TSP, isn't it?
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Jack Spirko: Yeah, absolutely is. There's no doubt about that. We have left a little bit undone on ethanol in the last appearance, and we're going to go over a bunch of other alternative technologies that we didn't get to cover last time because we went like an hour and 20 minutes and still had a ton to go. Do you want to kind of recap some stuff for us?
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Steven Harris: Yes, I will. My 6th appearance was supposed to be and is, where I'm dishing out everything all the forms of energy, of what works, and what doesn't work. It's a giant overview. My previous shows I've covered biomass. I covered gasification. I covered ethanol. I covered solar heat in detail. You can go to solar Solar1234.com and get links to all of my previous shows. This is kind of like an overview, recap, and update. The last show, the 6th show, I covered solar heat, solar photovoltaic electric, biogas that makes methane, biomass gasification, which makes syngas, CO and H2. I covered ethanol, which I have a really neat update for you on now. I covered water power. Only form of water power in the entire world is a damn, okay? I covered microdams and microturbines. I covered wind energy in the last show, which is something you'll really want to listen to.
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Jack Spirko: Very cool. We were chatting before you got started here. We were talking about some stuff with the ethanol that you mentioned. You've got some stuff that I actually consider like groundbreaking, maybe earth-shattering. Especially that it's going to be available to normal people like me.
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Steven Harris: Yeah, I do. It's something that ADM, Archer Daniels Midland, Monsanto, and all the big boys had. They've had it for like five to ten years, but it wasn't available to you and me. Well, I have a little bit of a chemistry background. I have a little bit of a customer base. I'm sizable enough in the industry and I know what I'm talking about. I speak the language. I called up some of these places and I talked to them. I found the right guy. I found their expert on enzymes. I had a long conversation with him. He said, "Yeah. Sure, we'll supply this to you. We'd be happy to supply this to you." I have to buy it in decent-sized quantities but I am going to resell it. What it is called is simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. As a little bit of a recap for you, all ethanol, every bit of alcohol in ethanol is fermented from one thing, sugar. It's not fermented from corn, wheat, or flour. It's not fermented from that. It's fermented from sugar. You take your potatoes, corn, r wheat, doughnuts, waste bread, or flour that's no good and those are starches. Those are called polysaccharides. They're long chains of sugar. And what you do <audio cuts out> polysaccharides, simple sugars that the yeast will eat. This is the same type of sugar that you and I eat is monosaccharide. To do that, you had to do what was the cooking process. You had to mix up your mash, you know, take a drill and a bucket full of doughnuts with water and mix it up into a slurry. Then you had to cook it. You had to heat it up to about between 180 and 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and you had to add one enzyme at that temperature, stir it up, let it sit, let it cool down to 140 degrees (Fahrenheit). Then add a second enzyme, mix it up again, let it sit, cool it down to 85 degrees Fahrenheit, pitch in your yeast, and let it ferment. Well, it's also a lot of energy use. You have to heat the whole thing up to near boiling temperature. That's a big pot of mash and big heater like the one you used for cooking turkeys outside. That's a lot of propane, natural gas, or a lot of wood heat to get it up to boiling. You got to babysit the thing, make sure it doesn't get too hot and everything, pitch in the enzymes, and wait for it to cool down. It could take a while for something to cool down from 200 degrees (Fahrenheit) to 140 degrees (Fahrenheit). That is time you're babysitting and you're adding the other enzyme. Then you got to let it cool down again for 140 (degrees Fahrenheit) down to ambient, which might be overnight, before you add your yeast. Then you ferment the monosaccharides that were converted from starch over into ethanol. Then you're going to distill the ethanol out of the wash. Well, that is called saccharification. what I'm bringing to the table and I'm making available to everyone, but it's not out yet. Today is April 4th, 2012. You might be listening to this in a month from now or a decade from now. When you go to IMakeMyGas.com and there will be a link on Solar1234.com and you see me mentioning and making something for sale called "Constellation SSF 020", that's it. What this is is simultaneous saccharification and fermentation. All you have to do is put all your doughnuts into a bucket, add water, take a big drill with a paint mixer on it, make a big slurry on it, make sure it's at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. Up here in the north we put like a brew belt on it to heat it up to 85 and keep it (there). Jack, where you are, you're just going to put it on your back porch.
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Jack Spirko: It's a little cooler than that outside. I can probably paint it black.
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Steven Harris: Yeah, exactly. Now you're going to add the constellation enzyme into the mixture at 85 degrees Fahrenheit and you're going to add your turbo yeast at the same time. Guys (this means), no cooking and no heating. You just add it at the same time and in two to three days you have the same result as you did with the cooking process. In two to three days you have what was doughnuts in water and instantaneously fermented into alcohol and in <inaudible> (two to three) days ready for distillation. That's the basics of it. I'm really trying to change this whole industry. I'm really trying to make it available for the little person, for you, to be able to get a waste source of energy as in two-day-old doughnuts. You see one-day-old doughnuts for sale. You never see two-day-old doughnuts for sale. Those get thrown in the trash. You can get farm bread, bread that goes to the store, then it goes to the outlet store. Well, what happens, it doesn't sell from the outlet store. Well, they sell it by the pickup truckload to feed the pigs. You can get this priced by the pound, so it's really great stuff. Because bread, flour, doughnuts, all the stuff is starch that will convert over with the Constellation SSF into a sugar. Now you can have really cheap fuel. Speaking of really cheap fuel, I have a way for you to get your fuel even cheaper. The thing I got to tell you about is I'm a member of this. It's called the Member's Support Brigade. It's from Jack at The Survival Podcast. It's packed full of discounts from all of his sponsors. Plus you get even more discounts from people like me. You get 15% off my stuff. I've used the discounts when ordering stuff. I got to order something, I check Jack's people. Yeah, they got what I want, I get the discount, I order it, and it works really good. Jack, tell me and the new people a little bit more about the MSB. Then I'll tell you what I'm going to offer.
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Jack Spirko: Well, cool. I say it at the beginning of every show, but obviously what we have. Frankly, it's not all our sponsors. Most of our sponsors do a discount. In total, there's about 32 supporting vendors, including yourself, that do that. I'm always shaking people down for another discount. Can't wait to hear what I'm going to get from you this time. What it allows people to do is basically support the show at 20 cents an episode and save money. You've been supporting it for a long time. You give a discount off one of your websites. I think you're going to tell us that you have something back in stock and you're going to give us a discount on that in addition to a sale price or something like that?
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Steven Harris: Yes, I definitely do. What I have is I have the ethanol stills coming back in stock next week. I am shipping positively next week. Everything is coming in by the pallet load. You can go to IMakeMyGas.com and buy the ethanol still right now. You're going to preorder it for a week and I ship it next week. You'll have it in about two or three weeks or less There will be links again, Solar1234.com. The MSB discount used to <inaudible> all my books and DVDs. On USA2.com and now publications.com. All my books and DVDs, all MSB members get 15 percent off all day long. I am going to, for this time only, I am going to let all the MSB people apply their 15 percent discount to the ethanol stills and the ethanol stills and packages.
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Jack Spirko: Awesome.
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Steven Harris: A still starts at $215 just for the still. With your MSB discount, you get $32 off right there. You're buying it for $182 plus shipping. I have a whole combo kit that includes the still, the distiller, the thing you put the mash into, plug into the wall, and alcohol comes out of. I got the alcohol measurement kit, so you can tell that I got 40% alcohol coming out at this time, I got 80% alcohol coming out at this time, I got 85% alcohol coming out a third distillation. I got the starter kit, Jack, which you have not seen yet. it's an 8-gallon plastic container with a lid and fermentation lock and a spigot at the bottom. You get plenty of room to put in all of your doughnuts or all of your sugar and your water and your yeast. It's got room to bubble up. That's new to the system, the complete starter kit. Plus I got the Bible of alcohol production. I got the book that -- you listened to a previous show, Jack dropped on to the desk with a "thud." It's (called) "Alcohol Can Be a Gas". I got the book and the DVD. That comes in the combo. It's 660 pages in the book, and the DVD is 3.5 hours. Plus the combo comes with the zeolite so you can get the last 10 percent of the water out of your alcohol so you can then mix that 50/50 with gasoline and put it into your car right now, any car, no flex fuel vehicle needed. Any car right now, 1983 or newer will run on alcohol and gasoline mixed 50/50.
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Jack Spirko: About that drop book stuff. Here's that book again. <thud sound>
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Steven Harris: <Steven laughs> Got to love it. That's one big book. It will stop a 9MM bullet.
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Jack Spirko: I believe it.
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Steven Harris: That's $415 for everything that I just mentioned, and that's a lot. That's a lot for $415. The MSB people, that's $62 off. That's about 350 plus shipping for the MSB people. You get your entire MSB first-year membership back instantly if you join it just to get the alcohol stuff from me. Then you can be making cheap fuel.
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Jack Spirko: Awesome. The question everybody's wondering right now, when's it going to be, do you think, that you're going to have this new enzyme thing, this Constellation or whatever it was called?
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Steven Harris: Probably about a month, just before summertime. Just when it's nice weather so you can put it out and let it work outside for you at the right temperature. It doesn't have to be 85 or stuck at 85 (degrees Fahrenheit). It just has to be 85 (degrees Fahrenheit) or warmer.
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Jack Spirko: Okay, I got you.
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Steven Harris: So in between 85 and 100 (degrees Fahrenheit) is just fine for it.
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