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I am not a prepper but grew up producing most all of our own food and still do. I would get a good canner and learn to can fish and meat, veggies. you would be amazed , I have wood heat , water wells , ponds
Wildlife etc.
Look at Bloody decks in the food /recipe section , lots of good info on canning fish. also about any good canning book. I enjoy it.
To each his own I don't worry about it much. But I live on a dead end road at the end. I work in the middle east and understand how fast things can go down hill.
Personally don't want to live through nuclear war.
In saying that I have seen a lot of unmanaged ponds , I would go with CNBG, RES , LMB, and harvest bass when they become overcrowded. its pretty easy to tell when a fish doesn't have enough to eat. You will be surprised how many fish dinners your pond will produce.
Dale

Regarding the battery. If this battery is a new breakthrough,,if it stores more electricity,, is lighter weight and costs less then this is a real game changer. That kind of a battery is what everyone in the world has been trying to develop. Let hope it is all that. If it is then Tesla Motors may be the new Henry Ford. But I will believe it when I see it.

The battery is just a Lithium Ion battery. Been around for a long time. The news is that Tesla Motors, in cooperation with Panasonic is building a giant factory to produce these batteries.

Enphase is supposed to be coming out with a battery for their solar rig that stores a lot of juice.

Vanadium technology far surpasses L-I because they supposedly don't degrade over time.

Battery wars - the answer to that is to use less power. I have LED bulbs in my flashlight's and haven't replaced a battery in many years.

Solar is becoming more reasonable, but they have to work an awful lot on making households more efficient for that to be more attractive.

As far as Preppers go, well, I know a few.

My curiosity would peak upon excavating a 55 gallon plastic barrel that's been buried for over 10 years, full of food.

What are the quality of eats going to be?

I'm just not going to worry about it. If I have to resort to skinning Chimpmunks...

I don't get the led flashlights...they are insanely bright to look into the lens, but they don't give off much light??? I hate the things...give me an incandescent flashlight any day!

You have to get the right ones. Also have incandescent as well.

If you're crawling around in a dark control panel, you'll appreciate the intensity of a focused LED.

The reflector optics on 99.9% of the multiple LED lights simply suck and scatter the refracted light. I'm with sparky....give me a single filament incandescent that can have the optics tuned. LED is pretty good, up close, but I find the light temperatures change the colors too much for me.

I agree on that with the multi bulb rigs. My brother got me one a while ago and it sucks. I just keep it by the door at the shop in case someone turns off all the lights and I have to go to the back of the building to turn them on. All my Real flashlights are Maglite's in various flavors. I like the LED over incandescent for close work, which is more than 90% of the time of why I am turning one on.

Spark, you're supposed to point the flashlight in the same direction your eyes are looking

Flash light wars. I side with the multi LED's. I have walked for years with my dog and we start very early mornings from 2 to 4am and get two to three walks in the dark walks with a flash light. I tried several different kinds of incandescents. Some had decent coverage and some just sucked with a big black hole in the middle. One such lantern type flashlight was bought from Amazon and made in China. It had a big black hole in the center of the focas. The bulb soon burnt out and when I went to replace the bulb I found the bulb and lenses were completely factory sealed so you couldn't replace the bulb. I thought OK, I will use the battery in another flashlight but it was slightly shorter and would not make contact in ordinary flashlights. I bought an incandescent at a local store that the focus was perfect so I went back and bought the other three they had left but their focus was terrible. Then at Walmart I seen and bought this 10 LED flashlight with battery for $5. The lighting was very even and reached out surprisingly far and the battery last for ever it seems. This is my second one from Walmart. I dropped my first one from a step latter.

This is my prepper approach:

1. Find somewhere sun is abundant and weather is mild, with proven aquifer or lake.
2. Invest in solar and new battery technology (tesla?).
3. With sun and water, plants are easier to grow.
4. Then may be a pond in green house, aquaponic to harvest plant, shrimps and fishes.
5. Since one would not be dependent on grid, one can find somewhere away from population or potential mobs.
6. Food source would be free range chicken that live off the land, their eggs, fish, shrimps, vege. fruits, nuts etc.,

In this case, one needs to store say yearly supply of fish/shrimp feed, a water storage, a diesel storage, flour. Then pray the calamity would not involve long period of sun-less days.

Assuming that one has enough solar produced power, one can even get one of this Desalt for home devices. Their 400-BHL-1 produces 400g per day or about what it takes for a family of 4 according to EPA, for that, it will need 15KW. So lot of solar panels.

But one can be near the ocean with unlimited water lol.

Mag lite led two Dcell bright as heck and shines 80-100 yards bright enough to kill hogs at nite