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Topic: The Spreading Food Crisis Thread (U.S. & World) |
elocs
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:44 pm Subject: Re: Unconfirmed food rationing in America |
This is the same stuff I have read here for years and years...
Of course then you have attempted to head some of the advice and have a little pantry for times the trucks don't show - otherwise why do ... |
Topic: The Spreading Food Crisis Thread (U.S. & World) |
elocs
Replies: 1480
Views: 61256
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 3:57 pm Subject: Re: Unconfirmed food rationing in America |
| This is the same stuff I have read here for years and years: "It's The End Of The World As We Know It, the sky is falling, run for the hills. Stock up food and ammo to last for untold years". It's ... |
Topic: Surviving a Financial Meltdown |
elocs
Replies: 270
Views: 38598
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:50 pm Subject: Re: Surviving a Financial Meltdown |
| So, this thread started on 20 January 2008 and 10 pages later it ends on 3 February. Today is 29 February. What has happened the last 26 days? Nothing left to say? No new news? |
Topic: SunOvens |
elocs
Replies: 39
Views: 5687
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:46 pm Subject: Re: SunOvens |
| My Sun Oven has been fun to use, but it is not r practical to regularly use. Since I got mine last spring I have paid much more attention to the amount of sun that I get each day and when somebody po ... |
Topic: Anyone have a link for EROEI for corn ethanol |
elocs
Replies: 10
Views: 1748
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:02 pm Subject: Re: Anyone have a link for EROEI for corn ethanol |
elocs,
Just scan through Mother of all Biofuel thread for links.
Or just google Pimentel and ethanol.
I know about the Mother of all Biofuel thread, all 53 some pages. When I did a search, tha ... |
Topic: Anyone have a link for EROEI for corn ethanol |
elocs
Replies: 10
Views: 1748
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 3:48 pm Subject: Re: Anyone have a link for EROEI for corn ethanol |
I know but it is quite easy for some people to reach the point of information overload
Well, I think information is power. One of my problems with doing a search about corn ethanol is all of t ... |
Topic: Anyone have a link for EROEI for corn ethanol |
elocs
Replies: 10
Views: 1748
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:58 am Subject: Anyone have a link for EROEI for corn ethanol |
| compared to other fuels? I need it for somebody who thinks corn ethanol is the greatest thing since sliced bread. When I try to do a search on that specifically I get threads than are many pages lon ... |
Topic: [Transportation] Motorcycles & scooters |
elocs
Replies: 73
Views: 23090
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:41 am Subject: Re: [Transportation] Motorcycles & scooters |
Riding a bike of any kind here in Wisconsin in the winter is impractical. Not only is there the subzero cold and snow, but riding on ice with the constant feeling that your wheels are going to slip ... |
Topic: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
elocs
Replies: 11
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Forum: Current Events Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:11 pm Subject: Re: Saddam to be hanged in mid January |
I think we ceded the moral high ground when we started torturing. Or maybe it was with the invasion. Or with the lying in the run-up to the war.
Umm yeah...or when we dropped napalm on unarmed Viet ... |
Topic: [Transportation] Motorcycles & scooters |
elocs
Replies: 73
Views: 23090
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 3:03 pm Subject: Re: [Transportation] Motorcycles & scooters |
| As a bicycle rider, a motorcyclist, and a car driver, all of them for 25+ years, I can honestly say that riding the m/c is the most fun, but also the most dangerous because of the car drivers who "ju ... |
Topic: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
elocs
Replies: 55
Views: 8443
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:45 am Subject: Re: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
In a fast crash, people just don't have the time to become good enough hunters to hunt the species to extinction before they die themselves.
They wouldn't have too. I am sure that large groups of ... |
Topic: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
elocs
Replies: 55
Views: 8443
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 7:09 pm Subject: Re: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
| I've harvested at least another 40 pounds of green tomatos before the first frost hit. They are now ripening indoors. At this point, my squre meter of land is blossoming with turnips and kale. If I ... |
Topic: #500- Who else is headed for the Pacific Northwest? |
elocs
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 9:26 am Subject: Re: #500- Who else is headed for the Pacific Northwest? |
BW, yeah good rants there. But beyond the emotional gratification factor, they point fo fundamental truths.
Yes we need to seal the borders, legal as well as illegal immigration included. Then ... |
Topic: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
elocs
Replies: 55
Views: 8443
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 7:00 pm Subject: Re: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
| If it gets bad enough, even gardening will be tough. As a kid I can remember going on garden raids as a lark, not to get food to survive. You might need to have somebody stand guard over your garden ... |
Topic: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
elocs
Replies: 55
Views: 8443
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 6:01 pm Subject: Re: Experiment in Food Production Methods |
I voted for gardening. I think in a post-collapse scenario, hunting and fishing will be played out within a year. The only thing left might be rodents and carp (nothing seems to get rid of these s ... |
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