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I just recently started buying batteries in 100 packs. A few short years ago, you couldn’t do that. But we use so many handheld electronic devices nowadays that it’s just about to the point where batteries are going to have ...

Storing assorted types of batteries for the long term is a part of survival and preparedness that’s just as necessary as stockpiling food, water and gasoline. But storing batteries won’t do you any good if you don’t store them properly. ...

Fire is one of the most important necessities for survival. While we don’t use fire much for our day-to-day lives when living at home, that’s only because we have replaced fire with other things. Our heating, cooking, light and water ...

While stockpiling food is an important part of preparing to face a disaster, your stockpiling shouldn’t be limited to just food. Experience has shown that in the face of a major disaster, much more than the food supply line is ...

Has anyone ever written an ode to batteries? If so, we can be pretty sure the aspiring poet who did so was an alternative energy enthusiast who discovered firsthand how absolutely essential it is to have a well-supplied battery bank ...

June 3, 2013 On the classic television show Star Trek, the starship Enterprise had a disturbing habit of losing power at the most inopportune of times. When your ship is being chased through interstellar space by a Klingon warbird or ...

I have been prepping now most of my life—probably ever since I read My Side of the Mountain as a fourth grader and wanted to run away and live in a tree in the mountains like Sam. I have seen ...