Another option is distilling ethanol. It's been on my list of things to buy/make for a while. You can make ethanol from pretty much any organic plant matter for extremely cheap. It's somewhat tedious but definitely a viable option. There are distillers you can buy and schematics for building one with simple materials.
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Another option is distilling ethanol. It's been on my list of things to buy/make for a while. You can make ethanol from pretty much any organic plant matter for extremely cheap. It's somewhat tedious but definitely a viable option. There are distillers you can buy and schematics for building one with simple materials.
If the investment in time and resources to learn how and produce ethanol isn't much I would look into it. Otherwise I'll just stock diesel.
On a slightly related note, I just finished watching another interview of Marc Faber. When asked what he recommends today he said get a self sufficient farm in the country-side with a house and fill it with concubines. That guy cracks me up.
On a slightly related note, I just finished watching another interview of Marc Faber. When asked what he recommends today he said get a self sufficient farm in the country-side with a house and fill it with concubines. That guy cracks me up.
Love his stuff. Might try to meet up with him considering that I am in Chiang Mai for a while. If he is interested in meeting peasants like me
this is all you need
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...1fHQDA&usg=AFQjCNHpcMMwumR-JKXqzTOGJjUcBzjw-A
FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL.
these lames talking about storing all this useless shit and wouldn't know what to do if they got a snake bite.
man needs:
shelter
food
water
This is probably the best idea here. Learn to make Ethanol. Diesel will stay good for 5-10 years if stored properly, although some forms of algae love diesel fuel so it could be ruined if water and air (even in small amounts) get into your storage containers. There's a product on the market that will supposedly keep diesel fuel good for 10-15 years according to the DoD.
If you store regular gasoline properly and add a fuel stabilizer you can keep it for a few years at best.
Either way diesels would be the engine of choice in a post-apocalyptic max max land since they can easily be modified to run on bio-diesel. You can even mix diesel with things like alcohol to stretch your supplies.
Love his stuff. Might try to meet up with him considering that I am in Chiang Mai for a while. If he is interested in meeting peasants like me
I didn't know who he was until recently. Then after listening to his recommendations and seeing how he lives them himself, like living in Chiang Mai and owning farmland, I realized I had been doing many of the same things (although on a much smaller scale since I'm quite the peasant compared to him). I sure would like to meet him but never heard of him making any appearance in Thailand. His speaking fees are probably way to high for that.
Those years are big blur. I was drunk or under the influence of something most of my high school years. So I'll have to relearn.
Sucks that there are only a handful of good comments in this thread. So I guess I'll add another one.
The lists of stuff definitely need to be localized. Like the 100 items list. I live in the tropics so all the items related to trying to stay warm would be dropped. Then I would add supplies and methods to keep things usable in a hot humid environment. Some things like lumber are impractical to store here because unless they are tropical hardwoods the wood eating insects turn them to powder in short order, and those woods are rare, expensive and unsuitable for anything except making furniture. Trying to preserve and save soft woods that might be good for general purpose use and construction isn't worth the effort except for a modest amount. You would stock other types of building materials that keep without any special effort.
The lists of stuff definitely need to be localized. Like the 100 items list. I live in the tropics so all the items related to trying to stay warm would be dropped. Then I would add supplies and methods to keep things usable in a hot humid environment. Some things like lumber are impractical to store here because unless they are tropical hardwoods the wood eating insects turn them to powder in short order, and those woods are rare, expensive and unsuitable for anything except making furniture. Trying to preserve and save soft woods that might be good for general purpose use and construction isn't worth the effort except for a modest amount. You would stock other types of building materials that keep without any special effort.