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Old 04-24-2013, 08:54 PM  
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As for the water and power comments you mentioned, in the last episode of the series Doomsday Preppers they happened to show a guy who had welded and weaseled together somehow the chain axels and pedals of two bicycles to what looked like a small wind turbine. His plan was to actually dip the turbine into a nearby small running creek, and hook it up to generate enough electicity to charge batters and supplement the running of his lights, fridge, freezer, and a few small appliances as needed. He fired it up and the damn thing worked.

You should catch that episode, I think it's titled "Let her rip".
I actually did see that episode. If I remember correctly it was the same guy that built the catapult that ended up flinging the homemade chinese stars about 25 feet. Oh well, never know until you try i guess.

From a standpoint of if you knew shit really was gonna hit the fan, I had a few favorite episodes of DD preppers I saw this year where dudes would be perfectly setup.

I really liked the guy that had the facial recognition software on entrance to his house. He also had the gate that could stop a dump tuck at 50mph along with embassy tinting all of the windows in his house. I thought the pepper spray mounted on the wall warning someone it was gonna go off was a little hokey. But I did like the 50 caliber beowulf he shot. I liked it so much I just built a lower receiver to put it on and plan to pick one up once the crazy gun prices start to come down.

I also like the guy that lived in the middle of nowhere in Kansas, he cooled his house by running the air intake underground and having the earth cool it. I thought that was genius. He also built the house they lived in and from the looks of it was a very talented carpenter.

I also liked the guy in Alaska that would head up river and drop tree's along the way so people couldn't follow him into the wilderness. People in Alaska are a special bread, I love their fuck the government mentality.
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