REBUILDING WORLD

[John]

I found this site, link at the bottom, which is full of many good old books.
For those that still think you will be OK long term, that is many many years, with whatever you have, read on and please before you start shouting do some research first.
The only point I will make is that it will not need an EMP or the likes to take electricity down and electricity is the King Pin
John

SOLAR PANELS IN A REBUILDING WORLD
Posted on September 17, 2015

Several people a week ask about adding books on Solar Panels and similar technology. It’s a common question so if you’re one of the people who asked it don’t feel like I’m singling you out.

When you think about a post-catastrophe world, one where the industrial and technological infrastructure has failed through a collapse of some kind or a catastrophic event such as an EMP attack or event you need to shift your thinking in very radical ways.

Picture a world where the electrical grid has failed, the factories have all shut down from lack of power, parts, supplies and raw materials.
Picture your children living in that world trying to rebuild from scratch not having grown up in the modern world that we take for granted, children to whom a television and computers and cell phones are simply something the old folks talk about.

Now to address the solar panel and solar power issue… right now without leaving your house try to build a solar panel with the materials and supplies you have on hand and without any use of electricity.

The chances quite high that unless you are a solar panel hobbyist who has some unusual materials and chemical supplies at home that you will fail.
Solar panels are NOT a feature of a post-industrial society trying to rebuild from a failure of the industrial infrastructure.

Solar panels are, in fact, a product OF an extremely advanced technological and industrial infrastructure and cannot exist outside of that infrastructure. The requirements for making solar panels are quite rigid, require large amounts of electrical power and precision manufacturing processes that even now push the limits of our technology to achieve high (i.e. practical) levels of efficiency.
Every couple of weeks or months you run across a story announcing a new breakthrough in solar panel efficiency which just pushes the envelope of existing technology even further.

While people who have survived a collapse or catastrophic event will undoubtedly salvage whatever solar panel technology they can and use them as long as they can the simple brutal reality is that lacking a modern technologically advanced infrastructure they CANNOT BE REPLACED. Even the relatively low tech lead-acid batteries would be difficult to manufacture.
So what’s my point?

If you are serious about trying to rebuild after something like an EMP then stop thinking short term. If it’s something you cannot manufacture a replacement for then it is Modern Tech and falls under the category of short term survival salvage. When it wears out or breaks it’s gone and you can’t replace it except by more salvage. Eventually the salvage runs out.

So prep all you want. Buy all the solar panels you want and plan to use them as long as you can but also think about when they break, wear out or fail.
What then??

That’s what the Library is for and about… the What Then after the modern equipment breaks and wears out, when there are no more solar panels and tractors and boots and axes and saws and pots and pans to salvage.
What then?

The Librarian
http://www.survivorlibrary.com/