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End of world type scenario: scavaging for power generation/radio components

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Ed.Kloonk:
Prepping is a real thing. As far a power generation goes, think about torches and how to power them. If you are buying a torch for use in a disaster situation, get a alum one as big as you can get, as thick as your arm preferably. You want something that will stay light while you create a lump on the head of a intruding foe or indeed a surprise zombie.

Good luck, brother and be well.

Also, thread needs an soundtrack.



Ian.M:
Just accept that in just about any TEOTWAWKI situation that rapidly takes down infrastructure and distribution networks, your chance of long-term survival in a dense urban or large suburban area is minimal as you will be competing with tens or hundreds of thousands of others for scarce resources and a small but significant proportion of the population will have no qualms treating you as a walking resource.

The rule of three applies, so worst case, any event that doesn't take out more than 99% of the local population without depleting resources, a week later could result in you getting killed for a two litre bottle of soda!

Unless you've got the resources to stock multiple redundant concealed secure caches on a walkable bugout route, your chances of even 'getting out of Dodge' to a survivable location are minimal.  If you've got such a location, its probably already off-grid, so most of this thread becomes moot.

Circlotron:

--- Quote from: Ian.M on December 19, 2020, 01:29:20 pm --- and a small but significant proportion of the population will have no qualms treating you as a walking resource.

--- End quote ---
So, natural selection favours the survival of the worst kind of people. What a wonderful nucleus of a new society that would be...

exe:
In case one wondered what ~200 bjts look like, here you go. Actually, not that big. Suffix "16", afaik, means that transistors were binned for higher beta. Since I'm now using mostly smd parts, and I tend to use 2n3904/2n3906, I think I have a life supply of bc549.

Trap for young players: if I remember correctly, they have pinout of a mirrored 2n3904. I got trapped by that, took me a while to understand why circuit didn't work.

MathWizard:
The Terminator 1,2 sure were great movies. I love To think about all the crash police investigator's and insurance agents that must have gotten together in the day's/week's after the Terminator's went through L.A./and area. What would they have concduded ? Something really weird happened.



The stunt driving in T2 is amazing. They really did all that stuff.

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