Maybe this could help some people get new jobs?
http://www.bootsontheroof.com/sem16/?source=google_content&gclid=CMPn4M_IsqECFQUhDQodCBjNBA

to big M,I have been buying extra cans of food too,Oatmeal and grits.Cornmeal and flour,And cooking oil.Most canned foods will last for years.Cranberry sauce will not.Only about 6 months for cranberry sauce.It will eat through a can in a year.I recently ate a couple of cans of turnip greens that I had at least 5 years with no ill effects.Still tasty.I bought lots of canned fish too.You just fill up your shelves now with 2 or 3 extra cans each time you go to the store.Or lots of oatmeal if you are just starting out with stocking up(20lbs per person per year).I have about two months of food on hand now.I live near lakes(water).Water can always be boiled.I try to buy canned goods on sale.Have lots of canned beans too.And dry beans and brown rice.triffid

I now have about 120 plus solar cells on hand.I'm bidding on more.I'm going to try to put together a panel soon.triffid

@triffid
I was going to say, with respect to your last Reply, solar panels might be a guaranteed power generator, and a good one, even if it is a little expensive.

But since I live in an apartment, all I can do is electronic experimentation (on free energy, of course) when I have the free time and budget the money from local parts suppliers.

The canned food idea is great.  I'm buying 5-liter water containers as well.  Tip for city dwellers like me:  If and when the power fails, fill your bathtub(s) and bail water to your toilet.  Buy pine soap as an antiseptic to help reduce the smell.

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@triffid
Why not try one of these solar cell trickle battery chargers?
Patent #5,276,393
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--Lee

Quote from: X00013 on April 14, 2010, 11:34:27 PM
Big o, your wrong, gold had value, us dollar notes could no longer be changed for gold

Well, that was in the Great Depression.  Yeah, you're correct in that point alone.
However, this time there's wayyyyyyyy! more money involved and people are getting really pissed about the way Big Money on Wall Street handled the whole, overall scenario for the last years of the bubble economy.

Then there the experience of American GI's in postwar Europe and Japan.  Nobody can eat a gold bar.  But cans of food and wrapped candy are actually something edible.  Soap can make the body humanly livable on the outside (skin) as long as there's enough water to wash with.

That's my main point when the economy finally implodes and collapses.


And then what about the Gulf Coast!
People there are scared to death that there'll be no money when 30-35% of the marine food sources may die off if BP doesn't move fast enough or fails in effective use of the concrete funnels they're building to gather the oil to the surface.  And the delicate Delta marshes are just as threatened.  Add this to the other problems getting worse.

--Lee