This article made me think about the old steam powered farm tractors and stationary engines. Nothing electronic about them. There are clubs that preserve and run them at get-togethers. In my area in Wisconsin I attended these a number of times Think about the stationary steam driven engines that powered lines of pulleys to run wood tools like planers, drill presses, table saws, lathes, and band saws. The same could be used to run large electric motors.
Part of my prepping for contingencies has always included hand tools saws hand drills, wood planes as well as axes and wood mauls. In my house I have always collected books on how to do things.
I also have some Faraday bags for electronics. I always keep at least one laptop computer in one bag, and back up (expansion) drives with all my important documents such as excel spreadsheets of our book keeping, and family documents such as old photos and videos in.
I have two bicycles: one is an e-bike mountain bike style, the other is an older steel frame road bike. I the event of an EMP, I am sure the e-bike's electronics would be worthless but I could take that stuff and the battery off and still have a 21 speed mountain bike.
We never know what can happen so it is best to have contingencies in as many areas as we can.
My grandad (on my father's side) worked on the train turntables in south Liverpool during WW2 as he was too old to fight (he was an ex-WW1 royal engineer).
That is fascinating and it has me thinking about the upgrade of the pathways along the canals in Ireland , maybe the strategic plan for Ireland will be to bring back horse drawn barges ???.
That was a plausible plan if the rail lines weren't destroyed. Imagine archeologists 6,000 years in the future finding them. They might be the only thing left of our civilization besides plastic bits in landfills.
Same thing in the USA. The steam locomotives are used because they contain no electronics that can be interfered with during a nuclear attack. The overhead bridges along these rail lines have to be a certain height to allow nuclear missiles to be transported.
This article made me think about the old steam powered farm tractors and stationary engines. Nothing electronic about them. There are clubs that preserve and run them at get-togethers. In my area in Wisconsin I attended these a number of times Think about the stationary steam driven engines that powered lines of pulleys to run wood tools like planers, drill presses, table saws, lathes, and band saws. The same could be used to run large electric motors.
Part of my prepping for contingencies has always included hand tools saws hand drills, wood planes as well as axes and wood mauls. In my house I have always collected books on how to do things.
I also have some Faraday bags for electronics. I always keep at least one laptop computer in one bag, and back up (expansion) drives with all my important documents such as excel spreadsheets of our book keeping, and family documents such as old photos and videos in.
I have two bicycles: one is an e-bike mountain bike style, the other is an older steel frame road bike. I the event of an EMP, I am sure the e-bike's electronics would be worthless but I could take that stuff and the battery off and still have a 21 speed mountain bike.
We never know what can happen so it is best to have contingencies in as many areas as we can.
My grandad (on my father's side) worked on the train turntables in south Liverpool during WW2 as he was too old to fight (he was an ex-WW1 royal engineer).
That is fascinating and it has me thinking about the upgrade of the pathways along the canals in Ireland , maybe the strategic plan for Ireland will be to bring back horse drawn barges ???.
And a British Rail poster read "Have an Awayday - a cheap holiday -
Do it today!"
That was a plausible plan if the rail lines weren't destroyed. Imagine archeologists 6,000 years in the future finding them. They might be the only thing left of our civilization besides plastic bits in landfills.
Same thing in the USA. The steam locomotives are used because they contain no electronics that can be interfered with during a nuclear attack. The overhead bridges along these rail lines have to be a certain height to allow nuclear missiles to be transported.