Grid Collapse
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-30/grid-collapse-in-india-leaves-360-million-people-without-power.html
How would you cope? The whole of the USA without power. Of course, India worships cows.
I would like to say that our grid is more robust and reliable but, I don't know...
As you do, I've just been beetling around on the Internet researching things and stumbled on generators and have been reading up about them; particularly inverter generators as I think the flexibility to use with electronics would be useful. I can't justify the expense at the moment ... but I'm...
For long term thriving WTSHTF is to have with you some machinist tools or equipment. There are a few items I can’t see myself NOT having and those are:
A lathe, a mill, a grinder, a heavy vise, a vertical drill (or whatever someone else would call it), and a welder.
I have made many different...