💧Old School + Modern Technologies Irrigate this Garden

[@paulmaxwell8851]

It's so nice to see someone preserving this old machinery!

[@thewindmillgarden]

Thank you. I love these old mills. Simple is a beautiful thing. Thanks for watching. 😀

[@helloharry1418]

Very cool system

[@thewindmillgarden]

Thanks for stopping back. 👍

[@baneverything5580]

It`s too hot in Louisiana to go without air conditioning after various common storms we can have at any time. While I had the money two years ago right before moving into my camper on a rural lot I got a large 300ah LiFeP04 battery, solar charge controller, cables, fuses, several solar panels and a 2000w ac inverter. Then I had to study a lot to figure out how to use it. I just ordered a 2nd better solar charger, more cables and extra panels and it will be enough to keep the battery charged and directly power my window ac.
I bought portable solar power stations for everything else from my freezer to low wattage cookers, lights, fans etc. We were hit by two bad hurricanes that knocked out power for weeks even here in central Louisiana in 2020. I`m certainly prepping, building a garden, and covering the place with fruit trees...over 15 so far. And I keep an old large fridge built-in to the wall of the camper stuffed with various dry food staples to prevent insects and any mice that might sneak in.
I`m about to buy a 300 dollar gas cannon for the neighbor who constantly disturbs the peace with his makeshift shooting range 200 feet through the woods behind me. The entire area is sick of it. If I don`t something worse will eventually happen when I snap. He messed up by doing it today in the HEAT...usually it`s "only" on nearly every pleasant day in spring, fall and winter...all day long. My cannon can shoot 17,000 times per bottle of propane and has an adjustable timer. 130d

[@oscargoldman85]

If you know all the components you will need after an EMP, then buy extra spare ones, confirm they work, and configure them as the existing ones, then put them in a big faraday cage, unplugged, and maybe in the original packaging.
Build a box to hold them all, and make it out of copper, or at least a thick copper mesh, that is earthed, and put it in the basement (I'd go full copper).
Leave it closed for about 2 weeks after the last EMP, unless you have a way to measure any residual Solar Corpuscular Radiation.
They should come out working and good to go. The 1859 event lasted about 8/9 days, remember that the Gamma radiation from a nuke can fry electronics, as well as the EMP (as well disintegrating, smashing, burning, baking, demagnifying, chemically denaturing them... so maybe bury that box under a few feet of soil too :).

[@thewindmillgarden]

It would be bad. It might also take a very long time to rebuild the electrical grid. If things turned to total chaos it might not get rebuilt. It would be a new world.

[@oscargoldman85]

@@thewindmillgarden I completely agree. Not only would all the stuff like Transformers (the big things on Electricity poles) - essential for Domestic and Commercial Electricity, but the parts that run the machinery to make them, not to mention the machinery to get the NUke/Coal/Solar generators going again.
Reliable Analog wind up watches might become essential agian, probably horses (look at the building of the Bismark, it used Donkeys - it was only 90 years ago..
ALso letters and mail may make a recovery - its a hell of a thing :)

[@oscargoldman85]

@@thewindmillgarden Transformers (so I am told) are very difficult to build (especially at scale), they require uncommon ingredients, take a loong time to build (by skilled people), and if you rush it, they are liable to explode the week you get them online. It is actually the power providers duty to provide redundancy, I wonder if anyone is building a bunch They better be... Also Considering what happened at Fukushima, which was ultimately caused by water pipe connectors were incompatible with the Fire Truck connectors, imagine the mayhem that will be caused when most transistors or Electric Control Modules will be dead, are all the Nuclear facilities up to scratch, and is someone on that right now (it being "name every system at the (Nuclear Power) plant which could cease, become unpredictable or cause some kind of danger if small processors or even Transistors in the system failed".

[@yvonnehyatt8353]

Very good video. Please study-Kristen Dirksen and Bryce Langston thanks

[@thewindmillgarden]

I will check it out. Thanks. 👍

[@xshounak]

Not kidding! The doomsday situation you’re concerned of might it sound far fetched to some but I completely support. The only question I wonder is if everyone does this.. then what would the world be like

[@thewindmillgarden]

I think if we all make small preps. Do what we can with what we have. We will all be stronger, and our society will get through an EMP or CME much better. Remember community and help neighbors out.