CRAZY PREPARED

[the last yatto]

 potato batteries, how and how many would you need to have radio output

other useful things for potatos...
easy grow methods?

can you cook things in the sun with tinfoil? what the the limitions

[Nast]

potato batteries, how and how many would you need to have radio output

other useful things for potatos...
easy grow methods?

You can stack up abandoned tires, fill them with dirt and manure, and plant your potatoes in them.

[Richter]

Elegant, just knock them over to harvest!

[Iason Ouabache]

potato batteries, how and how many would you need to have radio output

A simple hand crank radio would be much more efficient.  They are getting pretty cheap too. You can find one with AM/FM/Weather Band plus a flashlight for under $50.

[Rumckle]

ECH/Dirtytime has TCM

The main question is how long will this situation last, maybe I'm being optimistic, but I would say that it won't be forever, maybe a decade before stuff settles down a bit. In which case I think I'd stay in the city, (also that said Australian cities aren't that big anyway).

Still, this is a thread for being crazy prepared.

[Requia ☣]

Cities will be hell on earth if the food supply is interrupted for any length of time.  Doesn't mean you shouldn't stay, but you should definitely be ready to pull out.  Small towns, especially ones in farming areas, should fare better.*

Looking at nutrition labels in the grocery store today, I decided Spam might be the ultimate ration food.  Relatively cheap, 1000 calories per 12 ounce tin, 42 grams of protein, with lots of salt.  Not enough nutritionally on its own, but it might help more than any one thing.

*At least until whats left of the army shows up to steal all the food.

[Rumckle]

I have no problem living off canned food if I have to. Spam and multivitamin tablets, the breakfast of champions. I mean if it is good enough for the fallout shelters of Cold War families.

Also that army thing is a big reason of why I'd stay in the city. Whether it be regular army or militias I think I'd fare better in an urban environment.

Plus people like wade running around the country side shooting people up, not my idea of fun.

[willem]

A little less meat consumption and switching to a more vegetable/fuit/funghi/fillinandbecreative-diet should quickly solve most of our food production problems... gives you less of an hormonal imbalance, too.

[the last yatto]

http://www.nukalert.com/ worth the $160?
or something else cheaper?

[Requia ☣]

A little less meat consumption and switching to a more vegetable/fuit/funghi/fillinandbecreative-diet should quickly solve most of our food production problems... gives you less of an hormonal imbalance, too.

Oh yes, because a complete fucking breakdown in transporting the food to the cities could be solved by changing the type of the food the farmers are growing.  Not to mention all the fucking fruit trees that grow naturally in Wyoming.

[Requia ☣]

http://www.nukalert.com/ worth the $160?
or something else cheaper?

Hrm... I'd want to research it more, see if the experts found any problems with it.  Assuming its reliable (and loud) though, its size and battery life make it ideal.  I want one.

[willem]

A little less meat consumption and switching to a more vegetable/fuit/funghi/fillinandbecreative-diet should quickly solve most of our food production problems... gives you less of an hormonal imbalance, too.

Oh yes, because a complete fucking breakdown in transporting the food to the cities could be solved by changing the type of the food the farmers are growing.  Not to mention all the fucking fruit trees that grow naturally in Wyoming.

Like I said. Food - production (!) - problems.

Could've been off-topic tho. :P

[Rumckle]

http://www.nukalert.com/ worth the $160?
or something else cheaper?

Looks like it doesn't detect alpha radiation so maybe not the best

[East Coast Hustle]

A little less meat consumption and switching to a more vegetable/fuit/funghi/fillinandbecreative-diet should quickly solve most of our food production problems

I defy you to back that statement up with anything even remotely resembling science.

[Richter]

http://www.nukalert.com/ worth the $160?
or something else cheaper?

Hrm... I'd want to research it more, see if the experts found any problems with it.  Assuming its reliable (and loud) though, its size and battery life make it ideal.  I want one.

An idea, but for the price I wonder about getting a REAL Geiger counter. 
Also, I agree with the notion that we're liekely to see a slow degenerating slide a rather than a Cold War style blow out.  Unless nuclear terorism becomes REALLY popular, I'm not convinced of the necessity.