Posted on 03/23/2013 6:34:00 PM PDT by Kartographer
Imagine if suddenly, and completely without warning, the world experienced a total blackout – no electricity, no mobile phones, no banks, no internet, no TV, no emergency services. Nothing. Highways quickly become jammed with cars that have ground to a halt; an aeroplane falls from the sky; a satellite view of the planet shows it rapidly plunging into darkness. As it becomes apparent that the lights are never coming back on, nations are plunged into chaos, mass riots break out in major cities and, without electricity, governments are toppled. Into the vacuum step ad-hoc militias, armed and ready to enforce their own rule of law. This is the apocalyptic premise of the hit American TV series Revolution, which begins on Sky 1 this week. In the first episode, viewers are pulled through this nightmarish chain of events.
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Preppers’ PING!!
I will never be as ready as I want to be. I can always think of something else, or something I can’t afford yet...
punters = customers
Punter= average Brit Joes who watch...agree, etc.
He is seriously short on ammo I would say.
4 Someone who is ill-informed and liable to be taken advantage of. A sucker who lacks inside knowlege or savvy.
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5 One who innovates and attracts followers, normally by unusual means - an example of which could be barking or creating phrases. Usually a very sexual being who likes to be touched.
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I'd agree with you. It looks to me he's about 15K short of hardball ammo. I don't see any water filtration unit, oxygen absorbers or any method to preserve foods.
Question, just how many firefights do you expect to survive?
I like to use news stories and anniversaries of terror attacks, or terror possible dates (like Christmas, or 4th of July) to remind me to purchase or do something related to preparedness.
The recent stories from North Korea triggered a large purchase of the latest generation Eneloop rechargeable batteries, and some other rechargeable batteries.
That is a super book, perhaps the best, assuming that they have been updating it, my old copy is buried away somewhere and I don't know when I will find it, but I may purchase a new one if it is recent.
The photo of the Douglas family and their stockpile is from this New York Times article. . .
How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/magazine/how-to-survive-societal-collapse-in-suburbia.html?_r=0
I have seen some of the “Prepper” series, but I am not so impressed.
To me, prepping would count on getting the H out of Dodge in a moments notice.
I envision a number of disasters that would make all those
stored goods useless, not to mention the situations where everyone else in the area having their eyes on what YOU have, and they do not.
It seems to me that it should be possible to make a very powerful solar still, using a bit of passive technological wizardry, that could quickly and effectively recycle urine into distilled water.
Its big secret would be aerogel insulation and a Fresnel lens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel
Aerogel is a synthetic material first invented in 1931, and is one of the lightest known substances. But it is also an extremely efficient insulator. Fiberglass insulation is rated with an R-value (heat non-conductivity) about 13, but aerogel has an R-value anywhere from 14 to 105. Its melting point is 2,192F, about the same as for cast iron.
In recent years, they have figured out how to make thin, flexible sheets of aerogel at much less cost.
So line your solar still with aerogel, then focus a smaller Fresnel lens on a steel rod leading into it. If it was not lined with aerogel, the heat would quickly dissipate, but in this case the interior of the box will easily rise past the boiling point of water.
Then all you need is a condenser.
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