bigpaul
A True Doomsday Prepper
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everything will change post SHTF, people will need to adapt to the new circumstances.
That’s for certain. I guarantee shtf will happen too. No one knows when, how or what will take place after for certain, but change is one thing that is enevitable. I’m really hoping it dosent happen in my lifetime but with the state of the world that’s one reason I prep to help me and the ones close to me.everything will change post SHTF, people will need to adapt to the new circumstances.
everything will change post SHTF, people will need to adapt to the new circumstances.
I was brought up in a time before supermarkets- didn't see my first one until 1970 by which time I was married and paying a mortgage, mobile phones or computers. didn't have my first freezer until 1981 and that was an old ice cream freezer from a shop.That truism applies to life in general, I have been trying to explain to my children how we "" Survived"" without Mobile phones, Computers, the Internet, Microwave Ovens, Apple, Miscrosoft, Amazon, Sat Nav, Fibre Optics, McDonalds, Cheap imported fashion clothing, Goretex, Central Heating, Freezers, Air Con in cars, WIFI, Supermarkets .
According to todays under 40s we must have lived like neanderthals before 1980
It does have some drawbacks, but with my degrees in Chemical Engineering, I think I SHOULD be able to construct a working woodgas generator to power my propane electric generator. With near limitless hardwood available, it's a very appealing prospect.There also seems a possibility of a woodgas generator, which is a generator that runs off of burning hardwood.
It seems wonderful in theory, but my recent research seems to show that this idea is nowhere near as practical as it seems
A degree in Chemical Engineering is very impressive.It does have some drawbacks, but with my degrees in Chemical Engineering, I think I SHOULD be able to construct a working woodgas generator to power my propane electric generator. With near limitless hardwood available, it's a very appealing prospect.
And BTW, it doesn't use "burning hardwood" except as a heat source, that would defeat the purpose. It uses heated wood in an oxygen deprived sealed container. Poorly constructed, it could leak toxic fumes. But it is not a very complicated process not does it require very sophisticated equipment.
I seem to remember (I abandoned the idea a while ago) that one fire is used to heat a sealed chamber that is filled with wood, and that it's the gases given off by the destructive distillation of wood that power the generator?It does have some drawbacks, but with my degrees in Chemical Engineering, I think I SHOULD be able to construct a working woodgas generator to power my propane electric generator. With near limitless hardwood available, it's a very appealing prospect.
And BTW, it doesn't use "burning hardwood" except as a heat source, that would defeat the purpose. It uses heated wood in an oxygen deprived sealed container. Poorly constructed, it could leak toxic fumes. But it is not a very complicated process not does it require very sophisticated equipment.
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