I don’t think I’m yet convinced that in the UK we need to worry too much about being prepared for disasters. However, I found these articles interesting and worthy of ‘bookmarking’ to consider later. 100 Items to Disappear First “From a Sarajevo War Survivor” 1. Generators (Good ones cost dearly. Gas storage, risky. Noisy…target of
An impressive achievement with their water supply system (from 2009)
A background to survivalism and going off-grid – some of it rather depressing Environmental catastrophe, economic collapse, global pandemic … does it feel like the world is ending? If you think Armageddon is near and are trying to get ready, you are not alone. National Geographic Channel’s Doomsday Preppers – a reality TV series that
And about time! French oil major Total confirmed on Monday that it had stopped all production of coal as of last week after the South African government approved the sale of its coal mining operations there. “We cannot claim to be providing solutions to climate change while continuing to produce or market coal, the fossil
Not a great surprise to Leaf owners! Carbuyer released its list of the top 10 most reliable cars from superminis to SUVs. The list was compiled according to information and statistics from the the 2015 Auto Express Driver Power Survey. The annual questionnaire, filled out by around 61,000 car owners, shows that in reliability category,
Bring it on! The energy storage market is set to soar, predicts Navigant Research. How big will the market become? According to Navigant, we can expect market revenue of nearly $75 billion for energy storage enabling technologies from 2015 to 2024: Energy Storage Enabling Technologies Revenue is Expected to Total Nearly $75 Billion from 2015
An overview of the US prepping movement from 2012 Meet the preppers, a rattled, robust survivalist movement whose members just hate being called survivalists. Emily Matchar investigates the 21st century’s wildest new apocalyptic scene. BEING PREPARED is just the sensible thing to do, Scott Hunt tells me. Power outage? Superstorm? Nuclear attack? He’ll be ready.
A view on Prepping from April 2014 While channel surfing a little while back, I stumbled across the National Geographic channel’s show Doomsday Preppers which follows people who have essentially made a lifestyle of preparing for what they believe is going to be a catastrophic disaster that will lead to the end of civilization as
News from Ford in the US (but note that unfortunately the Ford Focus Electric is still not available in the UK) Fully nine out of 10 electric-car drivers say they won’t go back to cars with internal-combustion engines, according to a new Ford survey. The results included responses from 10,000 drivers of both battery-electric cars
For most of this summer Renault has had an astonishing offer on the sale of the all-electric ZOE. However on 1st September Renault announced that the low prices would only last until the end of the month: £5000 deposit contribution on ZOE Dynamique Nav That means that this offer has just one week left to
