Air-conditioners, lights, electrically powered stoves and barbecue grills worked only sporadically.
There's a dashingly futuristic 1968 Italian mobile kitchen and a collapsible solar-powered stove from the 1970s.
While the outside Patagonia summer nights are cold, my EcoSuite has been pre-heated by the cozy, wood-powered stove.
What Bradford recommends: warm clothing; a way to sterilize water, be it filtration, iodine or a battery-powered UV lamp; a small, portable, propane-powered camping stove for cooking and boiling water; batteries, with a waterproof storage container; headlamps instead of flashlights (because headlamps leave hands free "to fix other things"); emergency first-aid kits.
When they got home, they found that everything — battery-powered televisions, stoves, boats — had been swept out to sea.
Among the highlights of the summit today is the announcement by the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, of a $50m initiative£32.2m2m) to replace primitive cooking stoves, powered by crop waste, wood, coal and dung.
With the help of funding provided by The Pollination Project Caroline is providing these communities with eco-friendly, safe and affordable energy sources in the form of solar powered lamps and stoves.
He lives south of the Adirondacks, in White Creek, where his 160-year-old farmhouse is heated by a wood stove and powered by solar panels.
The off-grid former railway cabin outside Crickhowell, in the Brecon Beacons national park, is a mix of log cabin simplicity and rustic decadence, with a hand-built kitchen, freestanding bath, solar-powered lighting, wood-burning stove, double platform bed and chunky wooden bunks (for under-eights only).
In order to obtain electricity in off-grid areas and in emergency conditions (earthquake, hurricane, tidal wave, military field, etc)., a prototype of stove-powered thermoelectric generator (STEG) without battery embedded was built and tested.
The houseboat is reportedly solar powered, fitted with a potbellied stove and has a rainwater collection system, but as yet, no sign of a pool room.
