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Guinefort
Guinefort
Doing without?
Mar 4 2009, 8:52 AM EST | Post edited: Mar 4 2009, 8:52 AM EST
Let's face it - for about 9,000 years of human history, we managed without any electricity at all. It's only in the past 200 years that we've been able to rely on any power source with more reliability and force than a water-wheel or a couple of oxen. My survival plan pretty much assumes the total unavailability of any electricity or fossil fuels (including petrol/gas) from day one. I'm not sure how useful solar cells will be north of the snow-line - or anywhere in the event of a nuclear/accellerated-climate-change catastrophe. Also, I don't have any solar cells lying around my house, except the one on my pocket calculator. So at best, solar will allow me to keep mental breakdown at bay and contribute to the cohesion of our new society by showing people how to spell "BOOBIES" upside-down. Which is fun for *HOURS*, if I remember rightly from Primary School. (Unfortunately, I don't have an ox, either. Note to self: acquire pet ox ASAP.) Do you find this valuable?    
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necroslaughter
necroslaughter
1. RE: Doing without?
Mar 4 2009, 9:36 AM EST | Post edited: Mar 4 2009, 9:36 AM EST
Solar as well as a gene that is in an actual safe room that can be fueled from inside and vents outside. My house was given to me by my grandmother-in-law who had a 200 gallon gas tank placed on the property (it was a working farm). This can also be accessed with safety from the room she made. Everything in the safe room can be run off solar power for a good while even during the worst weather. The cells are treated so snow doesn't stick to them all that much. We do have regular electric all the other is SHTF stuff. She was rich, lived through Auschwitz as a child and was always worried it would happen again-lucky for me. Do you find this valuable?    

OracleofChaos
2. RE: Doing without?
Mar 4 2009, 5:26 PM EST | Post edited: Mar 4 2009, 5:26 PM EST
I can live without most of my modern appliances. A wood-burning stove is all that's really needed. I'm more concerned with a lack of plumbing, I am rather fond of flush-toilets. Still, there are out-houses. Get a nice half-barrel and fill it with water heated on the stove and I can have a decent bath. Oil lamps are good for lighting, but I'm not sure they'd need to be used all that often where I'm going for Z-Day. Do you find this valuable?