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Where will you find refined unexpired gasoline in your MadMax apocalypse? A pack of solar panels you can set out in your bug-out camping zone seems more feasib

• bombcar 3y ago
  > Where will you find refined unexpired gasoline in your MadMax apocalypse? You get vehicles that can burn expired gasoline (or more likely, diesel and diesel-like derivates in a multi-fuel engine). For true apocalypse you want to go back to steam engines, those can run on water and wood.
• SketchySeaBeast 3y ago
  > A pack of solar panels you can set out in your bug-out camping zone seems more feasible to me. I wonder how big those would have to be to be practical.
  • stetrain 3y ago
    Depends on how long you can wait to charge. 10kW seems like a capacity that could be carried in the truck bed and then set up on flat ground while camping out. A realistic daily average output would be 30-40kWh in a day, or about 1/4 of the truck's battery capacity. Sunny days in summer would do better, cloudy winter days would do worse. Recharging fully in 5-7 days seems reasonable. Assuming you actually had drained the battery to near empty and were needing to charge it back to full. By some comparisons that seems slow. But it might be faster than waiting for a gas truck that never comes.