Is Electricity Crucial To Our Survival? || The EMP

[notyouraveragebear]

Seriously, I thought it was pretty awesome too. I've conceptualized something similar and man would it be cool to realize.

Have you heard of underground shipping container bunkers? Shipping containers are fairly easy to find and all you have to do is bury them with a few feet of dirt on top and then cut doorways into them. Not a bad gig and you don't have to worry about the minimal space inside of the cylinder shaped bunker.

 

[Proximal]

Have you heard of underground shipping container bunkers? Shipping containers are fairly easy to find and all you have to do is bury them with a few feet of dirt on top and then cut doorways into them. Not a bad gig and you don't have to worry about the minimal space inside of the cylinder shaped bunker.

There is a lot of work that has to go into burying a container properly. It isn't as easy as you might think.

 

[notyouraveragebear]

There is a lot of work that has to go into burying a container properly. It isn't as easy as you might think.

Well I didn't say easy but neither is burying the other cylindrical bunker. Burying anything involves a lot of work (I have experience with backhoes and large equipment)... But I mean come on. An underground bunker full of beautiful tools of death. Lets be honest. Who isn't willing to play in the dirt a bit?

 

[Proximal]

Well I didn't say easy but neither is burying the other cylindrical bunker. Burying anything involves a lot of work (I have experience with backhoes and large equipment)... But I mean come on. An underground bunker full of beautiful tools of death. Lets be honest. Who isn't willing to play in the dirt a bit?

For sure!

the reason the Corrugated pipe is easier is it doesn't require any support, they are already designed to be buried. A container is not and will need something to keep the walls from caving.

 

[DinkyDau]

Nice Video Thanks.DD

 

[notyouraveragebear]

For sure!

the reason the Corrugated pipe is easier is it doesn't require any support, they are already designed to be buried. A container is not and will need something to keep the walls from caving.

Ah. That's very true... I hadn't even accounted for that. Good thinking! Thanks for the video it pretty much all comes down to how much you are willing to spend in the end. Which do you think is cheaper? In my opinion "pre-made" cylinders might cost more than shipping containers but then again buying the material to support such a structure might even them out or end up being more after its all said and done. I think one of the pluses of a square shape is how "stackable" they are. Better usage of space.

 

[sparked1]

Neat video. The guy's cost was $12.5k with him doing a lot of the work and he had his own tractor. Even if you were to add $20k for the work to be done with the shipping container, the underground tubes are still significantly more expensive, but a lot nicer too.

http://www.atlassurvivalshelters.com/aboutus/nbc/corrugated/

 

[Proximal]

I figure if you bought the tube and did the work yourself, you could get it done for a good bit cheaper than the container build. If you can't weld, frame, or use a backhoe, then you would probably be looking at an expensive project.

The container is better for space...

 

[jloneill17]

Numerous stories of the ever developing EMP (electro-magnetic pulse) technology full our newspapers and news sites home feed... What does the EMP mean to us and what could the future hold?

Electro-magnetic pulse technology has been around (yet not fully functional) for close to a decade, however the coming threat of electronic wipeouts has never been more real than it is now.

What would happen if a world-wide EMP set off a international black-out? We've seen the devastation depicted in Telly shows and movies alike... But would the reality match up to the fiction?

Electronics power and run near 98% of all civilization. From medicine manufacturing to weapons, from airplanes to cruise lines, and from water filtration to food production... Our life's depend on electricity.

it is estimated that near 1/3 of the entire world population would suffer fatalities within the first few hours following a blackout... And even that is a relatively conservative number. But that's not the focus of this post... What would happen to the rest of us? Would we have those that rise up to gain power over us all by "re-inventing" electrical power? Would we try and do that ourselves? Are there those of us who would push for a completely electricity-less society?

Where would you stand? What would be your first action steps following a world-wide blackout?

Before you decide, think about it... Ever Internet site you click on, every phone app you download, ever program you download, and every e-book or article you read is being gathered and used by hundreds of thousands of companies and corporations to learn more about you than you know yourself. The government can and does use the same data gathering techniques as these companies.

However electricity provides us life saving technology and the world has never been more open to us.

Me personally? I'd learn to live primitively as our hundreds of ancestors have before us. When the edge of an iron sword and the snap of a bowstring ruled the world around us.

Learning AFTER it happened would not be the best time to be figuring how to rub two sticks together. I would LEARN now.

 

[notyouraveragebear]

Learning AFTER it happened would not be the best time to be figuring how to rub two sticks together. I would LEARN now.

By "learn" I meant "adapt". Sorry for the incorrect word usage there... I know HOW to survive off the land, but that wouldn't lessen the paradigm shift of actually having to do it for survivals sake.