Solar Powered Generators

[Sal Collaziano]

Just noting before somebody yells at me that is being posted in the community LOUNGE - where off-topic, non-Genesis related messages go...

I was kept awake last night thinking about this... Gone are the days where most people have family photo albums... What if there were an EMP event (electromagnetic pulse) and all our connected electronics were rendered useless? Maybe some of you still have all your most precious photos in print - but I don't. And I have a feeling many others don't either.

Now that we pretty much all carry a camera in our pocket, we take more pictures than ever. Maybe not YOU, per se, but many people... My photos reside on my desktop computer (which is connected to electric all the time) and a notebook computer (they used to be called laptops before somebody burned their legs and sued). So my photos should be safe on the notebook computer.

Now comes the tin foil hat stuff... What if there was never power again? The "SHTF" scenario... This got me thinking that I'd like to get a solar powered generator for this and maybe a few other things. Not only photos, but I have so much information on my computer(s) and not many hard copies of it. What if I need to access this information without electric?...

So I did some searching and found a few solar powered generators - and I'm thinking of buying one of them. Does anyone ever think of stuff like this or am I just an oddball? Here's my list: $219 300 watts | $1599 2400 watts | $799 1000 watts | $399 500 watts

 

[joegr]

So, an EMP that takes the power grid down for a period of time is certainly realistically possible. If it is bad enough to keep the power out for more than a week, your pictures will not be your concern. (Actually, one that bad probably would destroy all the solid state memory in your devices anyway.)
Your concern will be staying alive. There's no way to support anything close to our population density without electricity. There would be no water and no sewage removal in the cities, and no cooling or elevators in the high rise buildings. There's not enough woods for all those people to move to, and how would they get there anyway? They wouldn't know how to live there either. Many, many people would die.
If you are out in the woods with your solar generator (which you somehow just made from scratch because the EMP destroyed the one that you already had), you'd better have some guns to protect it and what food you have from the few that do escape the cities.

 

[EdP]

notebook computer (they used to be called laptops before somebody burned their legs and sued). So my photos should be safe on the notebook computer.

Now comes the tin foil hat stuff... What if there was never power again? The "SHTF" scenario... This got me thinking that I'd like to get a solar powered generator for this and maybe a few other things. Not only photos, but I have so much information on my computer(s) and not many hard copies of it. What if I need to access this information without electric?...

So I did some searching and found a few solar powered generators - and I'm thinking of buying one of them. Does anyone ever think of stuff like this or am I just an oddball? Here's my list: $219 300 watts | $1599 2400 watts | $799 1000 watts | $399 500 watts

Laptop is a misnomer. Mine sits on my belly as I type this sitting in a recliner. Would sales increase if called bellytops?

I do have some older photos printed. Everything electronic is backed up on a CD or One Drive. If the outage is local or regional, there are ways to retrieve it. If world wide, no, gone forever.

Joeg makes sense in that it would be the end of society as we know it. Solar power would be good to have though, so it does make some sense, especially living in a sunny region. I have a small gas generator but you still have to be able to get gas. Gasoline, not gas from eating beans.

Hmm, something to think about if I can't sleep some night.