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Kerosene was initially derived from Coal, but production soon moved to distillation from Petroleum since that is easier than distilling from coal. http://www.answers.com/topic/kerosene For the purposes of this resurrecting an economy/civilization in the United States I think the more difficult (less...

It seems to me that if we had a complete TEOTWAWKI, then after supplies of liquid fuels run out and things begin to stablize, there will be a need for liquid fuels again (assuming we don't try to just skip that step and go straight to all electric, but I digress) so what fuel would that be? In the U...

Personally I've found that those fold-up all-in-one utensils cost too much and more importantly weigh too much to be worth it. A set of lexan utensils weighs a few grams and costs less than $2. As others have mentioned can openers are usually included in SAKs and Multitools. Knives will get the job ...

While I agree that the melt and pour method is a great way of making soap for the purposes of crafts, ultimately the purpose of knowing how to make lye soap from wood ash and rendered fats is to A) be able to produce soap indefinately B)Produce a higher quality soap for use today at a lower cost tha...

I have been playing around with this idea as well. Currently I have been using the boiled then filtered ash method to make lye-water, what about you?

Well, I finally popped the question on Sunday (July 27). So now I need to actually buy my tactical ring. I'm actually kind of surprised this thread is still going, but thanx for all of the advice on possible rings. Anybody know anything about zirconium rings?

From the picture, that is definitely not a faraday box and there aren't any worthwhile mods that would turn it into a faraday box. I also noticed two other things about the box 1)It is not fully lined with a dielectric (i.e. an insulator like plastic, foam, cardboard, etc... 2)The locking mechanism ...

Just out of curiosity, what sorts of plants are you growing in containers? corn isn't exactly the kind of crop to produce much food without a lot of land. Tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes, etc... will all do very well on the other hand. Don't forget that with potatoes you can plant, grow, rebury, then g...

Look into the various scuba diving supplies, they carry lots of titanium tools. Harbor freight sells a Ti crowbar from time to time for about $30, but it is not currently being sold.

Why Titanium?

Weight
Non-sparking
Bad conductor
superior flexibility
won't corrode, even in harsh environments

Lithium AAs. As the previous poster mentions CR123s last longer and perform better in extreme conditions, this is due to their being lithium batteries. AAs are available in lithium, giving the same temperature range performance and shelf-life. Moreover, AAs can be found within a 50 ft radius in jus...

By "live off of" do you mean use the pond as your only source of food? only source of protein? or something else? My uncle eats fish from a pond atleast once a week and I believe it is a 2 acre pond. Bluegill populations can be extremely prolific making it almost impossible to deplete the population...

Did you mean charging or changing batteries? Good deep-cycle batteries should last for years. Now, if you mean a grid attached system then you can buy wind turbines that come as complete grid-attached systems. I don't know of any solar systems like that, but all you would need is a grid attached inv...

First, that electric/manual setup from survivalunlimited looks like it would pwn. Second, everyone should have a rain water catchment plan. Even a big tarp and some buckets can be very effective depending on annual rain fall of the area. Finally, have you considered using a cistern? You could pump w...

The "Cover vs Concealment" section is called visibility and sight lines. I covered that originally, but feel free to give it some more depth. As far as the driveway goes, it's pretty much the same as a front walk way, the only thing to do is use a gate or leave it open. The open terrain shouldn't re...

Cool, I think I've taken the article as far as I can. I was surprised not to find any authoritative work on this subject anywhere, I guess that makes the wiki article the premier source for defensive landscaping on the internet huh?

A wiki article on this topic has been started, throw in your .02

http://zombiehunters.org/wiki/index.php ... andscaping

As many have stated already, your priorities will change based on what you forsee as the most likely possibilities as well as what the environment you are in provides. For example, you live in Minnesota (I'm in Iowa, an environmentally similar state) so let's look at disasters and resources. Tornado...

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These are definitely some cool little containers to have. For a second I thought this thread was going to be a repeat of the "10 foot PVC pipes full of canned food" thread. (shudders)

As always, an awesome post Y.T. WoodsWalker pretty much covered all of the glaring things, and I will probably repeat some of what the others have said. The first I noticed was your "pull-outs" they appear to be various random types of zippered toiletry bags and what not, they organized well but the...

I have a firecracker as well, care to let me in on how you "focus" it? As far as brighness, I find 18 lumens to be good enough for most anything I ever need it for and the thing is rediculously tough. It also has great battery life, I'm still using the original battery over a year after purchase.

In a PAW scenario, where the work would be worth it, you could cut and unroll the cans to create tin-plated steel roof shingles or just some other form of steel plating with reasonable corrosion resistance.

Glad to see a thread on this, I have been intending to write a ZS wiki article on this for a while. It seems to me that cheese making is an excellent method for preserving dairy without refrigeration.

Good to see you outside of the chat LtCmdLeia!

Just to throw in my .02 on PTZ vs fixed, you can buy several good fixed for the price of a cheap PTZ making it easier to cover a lot of area cheaply. Not that PTZs aren't full of win, but if it's a matter of the most coverage for you money I think that fixed would better accomplish this if they are ...