Hikingware Emergency Preparedness Blog #1

FINDING POWER DURING AN EMERGENCY

An EMP blast from the right location has the ability to do serious damage to the power grid.  The American government created a report that is hundreds of pages long to address this potential disaster. Not only is an EMP a serious concern for our nation, the majority of us are woefully unprepared to find power after such an event.

How about you? Hikingware.com offers this list of alternative power sources if you happen to get in the way of an electromagnetic pulse that shuts down the power grid:

Car Batteries – The robotic cars of this age will surely have most of their useful parts scrambled but the power you can yield from a car battery is substantial. In fact with a simple converter you are able to power homes with your car!

1. Household Batteries – If you are already prepping you should have this power source en mass. If not seek them out. I am sure Americans have tons of batteries in use they could pull power from. Dump toy boxes, search pantries, video game controllers and other appliances that hidden and rarely used.
2. Household Batteries – If you are already prepared you should have this power source en mass. If not, seek them out.  Americans have tons of batteries in use that they could pull power from. Dump toy boxes, search pantries, video game controllers and other appliances that hidden and rarely used.
3. Alarm Systems – Criminals evolve just like the rest of us. Since they realized cutting the lines that run to your alarm system is a good way to negate its efficacy, alarm companies have moved to wireless. That means your system is powered by some alternative source of power. Your cameras as well, if wireless, are pulling power from an independent source.
4. Cable Boxes – The cable companies install these boxes on the side of our homes and even sometimes inside the house. These are wired to the power but are also backed up with a some type of battery.
5. Marine Batteries – In a situation like this it’s very unlikely that you will be trolling around the local bass waters in your jon boat, especially if you have no way to tow it. Utilize the power of your marine batteries as an emergency source for your home.
6. Laptops – Most of these shutdown with 10 or so % of power left to assure you don’t find it completely dead. Either way, with the right tools you can easily harvest power from your laptops. However, be aware that you can receive a powerful shock from your laptop if you fiddle around the inside without knowing what you're doing. This is one power source you'd better study up on before trying it out! 
7. Portable Electronic Power Sources – These wonderful power bars or power boxes can be fueled by anything with a USB port and left on standby for the day the lights go off.