Assume the worst happens...peak oil, zombies, whatever...either way, if you needed to immediately leave and take refuge *somewhere*, somewhere without running water, electricity, access to food, shelter, etc...
What are you going to do?
This is the thread for real ideas and instruction and links on survival (hence, it is in the academics section...
Things to think about: shelter (there is a public domain book called Shelters, Shacks and Shanties on this topic, for anyone interested), clean water, food, sanitation, clothing, foraging, farming, medicing, etc
For example...one problem is cooking (and being able to boil water, essential for clean water and for sanitation incase of illness or injury). Anyone that has ever cooked over a fire can tell you that while somethings work really well and taste delicious, it takes a long time and uses alot of fuel. If one is in an extended survival situation, it then becomes necessary to have a way to efficiently and (relatively) quickly cook food.
Since about 1/5 or 1/5 of the world still uses wood cookstoves, and in the interest of making them more efficient (because wood fuel has become increasingly hard to find in many of these places), there has been much (easy and cheap) innovation meant to increase the health and ease at which persons in developing countries cook (indoor smoke is a big health concern, if you didn't catch my post in the deforestation thread)...there happen to be quite a few resources on this matter:
There is the the Wood Gas Stove (uses wood as fuel, converts wood to gas as its burned, leaves charcoal as a leftover), which is one of the most efficient stoves...
But there is also the "'Hobo Stove", which is probably one of the easiest stoves...and made from punching/cutting some holes in a large tin can--there a a number of variations on this stove (one example, from mother earth news), or check out this awesome cook kit with hobo stove)
What are you going to do?
This is the thread for real ideas and instruction and links on survival (hence, it is in the academics section...
Things to think about: shelter (there is a public domain book called Shelters, Shacks and Shanties on this topic, for anyone interested), clean water, food, sanitation, clothing, foraging, farming, medicing, etc
For example...one problem is cooking (and being able to boil water, essential for clean water and for sanitation incase of illness or injury). Anyone that has ever cooked over a fire can tell you that while somethings work really well and taste delicious, it takes a long time and uses alot of fuel. If one is in an extended survival situation, it then becomes necessary to have a way to efficiently and (relatively) quickly cook food.
Since about 1/5 or 1/5 of the world still uses wood cookstoves, and in the interest of making them more efficient (because wood fuel has become increasingly hard to find in many of these places), there has been much (easy and cheap) innovation meant to increase the health and ease at which persons in developing countries cook (indoor smoke is a big health concern, if you didn't catch my post in the deforestation thread)...there happen to be quite a few resources on this matter:
There is the the Wood Gas Stove (uses wood as fuel, converts wood to gas as its burned, leaves charcoal as a leftover), which is one of the most efficient stoves...
But there is also the "'Hobo Stove", which is probably one of the easiest stoves...and made from punching/cutting some holes in a large tin can--there a a number of variations on this stove (one example, from mother earth news), or check out this awesome cook kit with hobo stove)
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