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Some of you may be interested in this blog:

http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

This guy lived in Argentina during their recent problems and has plenty you can learn from if you see this potentially happening here.

As with all things electric, can you reduce your usage rather than up your supply, i.e. could you work from a ipad or another tablet which has a much longer battery life and less demanding on recharge? It may be cheaper and more portable to do this than a massive Solar Panel and batteries etc?

Theres also the Ghillie kettle which is British Made and has a whistle

http://www.prepshop.co.uk/water-1-c.asp

I think you would all enjoy Jack Spirkos podcast, it covers lots of interesting stuff, but not in an Alex Jones kind of way

http://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/

Separated at Birth?

Why not? Don't overestimate nuclear's contribution. Nuclear's only expected to provide 10-15% over the coming decade or so. Cutting demand back by that much isn't a big deal at all? I thought that quite a few alternative fossil fuel power stations were due to shut down over the next few years, and ...

Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear power plants while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12745899

Im no fan of nuclear, but I dont see how we can generate enough power in the Uk without it :/

Now, this is interesting !

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011 ... -wikileaks

Hey Im disappointed, I thought you be rigging up a Aquaponics system in there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU9x_W9X-tM

Oh my this could be quite important. UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when b...

And yep, another Miele recommendation from me

Adam, you could always type it into word/notepad/whatever then copy and paste it in to save the timeouts

WTF, why do spammers bump 5 year old posts :/