BioLite CampStove burns wood and generates electricity.
Posted on 08/26/2013 6:20:36 AM PDT by Travis McGee
Any trick to getting my Amazon Kindle copy of “The Bracken Anthology” to update so that “Alas, Brave New Babylon” is included? I have “Automatic Book Update” turned on, but still no luck. Thanks!
Read it all. Good on many levels. Why did the electric go out? Revealed in later chapters but maybe an EMP strike, a few of them. The Trigger Effect was a decent movie where the power just goes out
Take away electricity and all modern civilization collapses. Now I will have to think this way
BTTT
Wish it was longer!
Thanks Travis! Finally got around to reading it the other night and it has caused a sobering re-focus of priorities; largely because it’s not a far-fetched unimaginable future.
I need to poke around the Amazon Kindle websites to see if that is a function I can turn on.
I wish it was impossible, but it’s not. Electricity has become our oxygen.
I was going to call in to your radio appearance the other night, but no area code was provided for the host’s show in... Alaska? Good interview/discussion!
If the power goes out, we will probably never know the real reason why. Without any news reports, it will just be rumors passed from person to person.
EMP? Solar flares? Cyber war? Hackers? A bank crisis that collapses the global financial system? Nobody will even know why it happened, so I don’t focus much on the reason in that short story. The narrator doesn’t know why.
But for sure, we all need to make personal preparations, and strive to make our local power grids as robust and independent as possible, to try to head off cascading grid failures.
If the power goes out for even a week, our cities will all explode, and then humpty dumpty will be too smashed up to fix.
It’s short on purpose, because I want it to be readable by folks who don’t have time or inclination to read a long novel. It’s not part one of a series, it’s a finished work.
My goal is to get the libtards to notice it. The first part is straight doomer fiction, meant to be an effective hook for a bait and switch to the message part of the story, the “why” of civilizational collapse.
You heard that? I should have posted something with a streaming link before the show. I will next time.
Saw your FB post and tuned in, while reading Alas.
That’s a dangerous mixture at one time.
BioLite CampStove burns wood and generates electricity.
Thank you.
But does it keep the internet servers going?
But you have light, too! (8^P)
The comment referenced the Kindle, and by implication any e-book reader not necessarily Internet connected. There’s a reason I keep all my e-books on-device. Manage to charge it, and there’s a large library at hand. I’ll build a generator if need be.
That looks cool!
Gardening has a vicious learning curve so start learning before it hits the fan. Those who merely have stored seeds will die before they get a good harvest.
No doubt. I’d have to pay a gardener at this point.
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