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Or if you're rural, an external combustion engine of some sort, so you can keep the lights on with firewood.
by i_am_proteus 7y ago
Or if you're rural, an external combustion engine of some sort, so you can keep the lights on with firewood.
- ccccppppp 7y agoYou must mean steam engine.
- gwbas1c 7y agoSterling engine, peltier chip... You can find peltier chip phone chargers that work by being placed in or near a campfire.
- jhoechtl 7y agoExtract gas out of firewood to fuel the combustion engine? Doable but nothing without consideravle knowledge and welding tools. Unless you are prepared. A nice stock of heating oil (doesn't contain degradeavle components as regular diesel now at least in Europe) will also get you through for some time.
- oceanplexian 7y agoIf you actually are rural, there are substantially better ways to do this. Most people who live in a rural area have 500+ gallon fuel tanks, either heating oil or propane. Even my mom has one and she's not a "prepper" or technically sophisticated or anything. With a properly set up standby generator (The diesel ones are super quiet) you could be rocking a month long power outage and not even know that the power was out.