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Your own power generator!

Gizmodo : Keeping the lights on

Keeping the lights on #
Category: Misc. Gadgets
If you don't want to go without power during the next blackout, Slate recommends picking up the EU3000, a portable generator from Honda which pumps out 2,500 watts of juice.
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For some reason this made me laugh... I suppose because it is verging on a siege mentality. Perhaps nuclear bunkers will be coming back in vogue?

Edit - this post from Warren Ellis is what we should all be doing (I include myself in that):

Manna Jo Greene sent power Friday (during the massive blackout) to the state grid from a solar panel on a building she built behind her house. Sunshine was abundant Friday.

"The meter is literally running backwards right now," Greene said...