If you add lots of empty 2l soda bottles, full of water, to a chest freezer, it has INSANE thermal mass. It can survive without power for like a week. Power almost never goes out for that long. https://twitter.com/enginoire1/status/1239735531338190853 …
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7/ while I think that wood would lower the thermal mass, I think that this is the wrong explanation thermal mass isn't the same thing as mass theoretically a less dense substance can have more thermal masshttps://twitter.com/tketkr/status/1239918236487036929 …
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8/ yes. I've been in the basement gym, thirsty, and grabbed a (room temperature) 2l bottle of water that was displaced from the freezer by recent meat additions I never empty the bottles, just cycle in and out as needed https://twitter.com/ThatPimpHat/status/1239918469115764739 …
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11/ solids (i.e. half solid half water meats) are not as good as liquids bc there's not as much potential to absorb thermal energy when going through a phase transition from solid to liquid I mean, don't throw away meat to fit more water into freezer > https://twitter.com/therealnuge820/status/1239921121274867718 …
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12/ but my point is that you'd rather have a 25 ft^3 freezer with 20 ft^3 of meat and 5 of water, than a smaller freezer stuffed all the way with meat
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13/ and you'd rather fill up the last 5 ft^3 of that larger freezer with pure bottles of water than with, say, mixture of water-and-sawdust, or something with meat-like-characteristics
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14/ Meh I see a lot of this kind of posturing in prepper circles. Like, yes, things COULD always get worse, and if SHTF, you may not have electricity HOWEVER >>>https://twitter.com/otakurean/status/1239941102125236226 …
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15/ Power Laws Rule Everything Around Me You will have working electricity 99% of the time when power goes out, it will be for 1-2 days, 99% of the time if it's worse than that, it will be < 1 week, 99% of the time etc you can build data to confirm this power law yourself
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16/ Japan and Germany had electricity through most of losing WWII. In the third world, even with inconsistent power, people get power 12 hrs per day, or every other day, etc. Google "Venezuela electricity". It's not out for weeks or months, just rolling blackouts. So >>>
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17/ all prepping happens at the margin. All prepping rhetoric and education happens at the margin. You can talk your normie parents into putting away 1 week of food. You can talk your infowars friend into getting a freezer and 1 month of food. You can talk your ... etc
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18/ So, do you want to tell your folks "mom, dad, S may HTF, so you should dig a survival gave and learn to eat tree bark and build traps to catch rabbits" ? Or should you be sane and ask for something achievable?
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19/ so telling someone who is open-minded, eager to learn, and asking for advice on getting a bit more resilient / anti-fragile "bro LOL when SHTF there's no power, there's no freezers, gotta learn to salt roadkill and hang it to dry" ... is that good?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdi4msopIBw& …
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20/ Yep. I've got a standard Honda generator, plus also a larger generator that I can drive from my tractor's PTO, plus also a bank of lead acid batteries and a whole-house inverter. Run the tractor ~ 8 hrs/day, keep the whole house running 24 hrs/day.https://twitter.com/lumiferrous/status/1239948855296364548 …
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22/ I use it in my water treatment system. Lowes gives a pretty big discount for buying a full pallet (10%? more?), plus I also buy 10% Lowes coupons online. Plus, in a true SHTF, you can use salt to preserve meat (see earlier freezer discussion)https://twitter.com/HoodlumDoodlum/status/1239957205199306754 …
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23/ Yep, it's sodium chloride, just like table salt. In 100% SHTF road warrior scenario (e.g. EMP), I'd pulverize the salt, pull all the meat from the freezers, then layer salt / meat / salt / meat / salt meat and open the defrost / drain taphttps://twitter.com/BuucketHe4d/status/1239957175281336321 …
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24/ catch the brine discharge in buckets! dry it out in the sun voila free salt
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25/ of course, if you pack meat in salt, the meat (a) lasts forever, (b) gets dry and SALTY AF you'll probably want to soak the meat in water overnight before cooking it
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