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How about a steam/electric hybrid? Use a steam engine coupled to a genny to produce electricity (ran on waste oil) to either run a small vehicle (pickup would be be best since you could mount the engine in the bed) or charge batteries for an all electric vehicle. The problem is that small...

It must be hard to walk with balls that big. :shock: :shock:

I can see punching the fuel tank because most of them have anti-siphon devices in them. A lot of them are plastic and can be opened easily with a cordless drill with a big bit. Put your catch pan under the tank, drill a hole and get gas (assuming the owner kept the vehicle fueled up, I never let...

The EMP will follow electrical paths......even equipment in Faraday Cages will have to be disconnected from antennas and outside power sources until the danger of EMP is over. In a sneak attack very little equipment will survive......the military keeps "war stocks" of vehicles and equipment...

You may be thinking of the Neutron Bomb: As per wikipedia.... A neutron bomb, or enhanced radiation weapon (ERW), is a type of nuclear weapon designed specifically to release a large portion of its energy as energetic neutron radiation rather than explosive energy. An ERW explosion is...

All nuclear weapons are capable of emitting EMPs.....the bigger the bang the bigger the EMP. Hydrogen bombs are bigger than Atomic bombs and were designed to destroy major cities or other stratigic targets (such as fields of missile silos) they are usually measured in megatons...one megaton...

Any unshielded electronic system can be fried by EMP...even if they are not in operation. It is the initial burst of powerful electromagnetic energy that does the damage. Cell phones, radios, hard line telephone systems, electic power grides, wind generators, solar power systems, satellites...

That is one thing the deuce has over newer vehicles.......EMP will not affect it. EMP will not affect batteries or alternators....just electronic ignitions. Most vehicles with the older points and distributor ignitions systems will not be affected either. EMP will disrupt or destroy any...

I try to have a little bit of everything....including a big reference library. At one time (many years ago) I was a member of a local survival group....one time when it was my turn to host a meeting one guy was looking through my books on butchering. He was somewhat surprised (aghast...

One of the issues I see with using animal based fats as a fuel would be the thickening once it cooled down from the rendering process. If you could find something to mix it with to keep it from clogging up tanks, filters and lines I would say you could use it as an emergency fuel. If you used...

No matter how bad the movie is I ain't leaving till it's over.

Not at my place...I got plenty of free range possums trained to come when I put out food. Kind of like a possum deli.:D

Probably the best and worst prepared group of people for when the WTSHTF are the old order Amish. They are mostly still off the grid and are fairly self-sufficient.....they are also pacifists which make them an ideal target for bad people. The best they can hope for is a group of decent folks...

One thing to consider is how the commercial distribution of fuel works in this country. Fuel travels from refineries though pipelines to terminals where it is loaded onto tanker trucks that carry it out to the service stations. The pipelines are dependent on the grid to run the pumps (there...

What he said. Colder than a Siberian well diggers butt.

I have a 12 volt pump that I got from Tractor Supply that will lift fuel. If you had several feet of hard PVC pipe sections with threaded ends that you could carry with you it would solve the problem of a hose collapsing when sucking fuel out of an in ground tank. Putting a strainer on the...