TactiSMART 017: Showers? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Showers?
One of THE BEST--it's hard to decide since there are several--scenes in the 2006 "Casino Royale" is when Daniel Craig's 007 joins Eva Green's Vesper in the hotel shower and holds her like a totally decent gentlemen and turns warmer water on them to comfort her after the horrific machete fight with the black terrorists. Easy-to-do in a 5 Star hotel!
Heating water to just 10 degrees above your body's 98.6F for a warm shower IS a daunting energy task if off-the-power grid. During the COVID19 panic-demic, your stay-at-home time is a great opportunity to get your house into SHTF order. Let's tackle the warm/hot shower situation.
There is the sun-baked shower plastic bag & hose that can work great IN THE SUMMER SUN if you are OUTDOORS. You (James Bond Citizen aka JBC or G.I. Joe) can erect a shower curtain around it to include your Sprinter Van Mobile Home (SVMH) or M113 Gavin light tracked, tank--if that's your home on-wheels/tracks--but let's face it--we'd all rather take our showers INDOORS so the PLAN B, WAR track or HOME DEFENSE (HD), BUG-OUT VAN should have this built-in with a commode--adequately powered by enough roof solar panels for hot water.
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WolfWise Pop-up Shower Tent
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✪ VENTILATION & VERSATILITY - The mesh top design and zipper window with large entrance deliver 360-degree ventilation for better dissipation of body heat and odor. WolfWise shower tent offers a private space for using the toilet and enjoying a quick shower when you go camping outside. It also provides a changing room for models to change clothes when you shoot outdoors, for your kid's dancing competition, or for clothes vending stands.
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✪ POP UP DESIGN & PORTABILITY - Pops up and folds down in seconds, no assembly required. Ultra-lightweight construction allows for easy transportation with included carrying bag. Weighing just 4.3 pounds; it can be folded into a compact size of 22.8" L x 22.8" W x 1.4" H.
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Every American should have a SVMH as their SHTF PLAN B in case they absolutely must bug-out away from an incoming destructive force; paid for by their 2 years of National Service (NS). Every American with his/her own self-propelled, covered wagon. History repeats--again! The Veteran Administration (VA) should begin this as the new American norm by supplying them to responsible veterans so they can get on-their-feet and if necessary drive to where seasonal work may be--say Amazon shipping out west etc. SVMH adventure across America seeing our parks is what wise President of the United States (POTUS) Teddy Roosevelt intended so we can "find ourselves"--just make sure you are not alone, are gun-armed and have an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) if you encounter the evil supernatural/BIGFOOTS etc. out there...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMNq7c2UHO4
PLAN A should be your static, permanent home for "bug-out-in-place" aka HD simply because you can have far more supplies stored than you could ever transport in 1 trip by any vehicle. Band together with your neighbors to guard your street as a HOME DEFENSE FORCE (HDF). You would ideally want to shower in your home's Bathtub/Shower/Curtain (BSC) combination where you already have a shower head holder on the wall for hands-free showering as you do in Every Day Carry (EDC), ehh Life. (EDL). There are levels of SHTF polite societal collapse. The 1st thing to do in SHTF is to fully fill your bath tub up with cold water which can be purified for drinking or used as-is for hygiene. Do this even if the water grid is still up.
SHOCKING. Simply NOT SHOCKING!
The 2nd possibility is your natural gas runs out--but you still have the electrical power grid.
In this situation, you can heat up water to 100ish degrees on your electric stovetop to shuttle to a 5-gallon bucket in your BSC combo, where an electrically-Powered Shower Hose (ePSH) that recharges by 5-volt USB awaits. 5v is easily solar or hand-crank recharged. Tedious, but do-able.
ePSH
https://www.amazon.com/RISEPRO-Portable-Rechargeable-Charging-Cleaning/dp/B07CZFQZQM/
RISEPRO Portable Camping Shower, Outdoor Shower Head, Shower Pump, Rechargeable Battery, USB Charging Line, Pumps Water from Bucket, for Hiking, Pet Cleaning, Pet Shower, Car Washing
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MULTIPLE USES – You could use it at indoor or outdoor ; Good for Hiking, Camping, BBQ, Travel, Kids Bathing, Plants Watering, Doggies, Cats and other Pet's Cleaning, etc. Moreover Suction Cup and Hook are included for using it with hands free
PERFECT EXPERIENCE –This shower head Water flows at approx. 2 litres per minute and up to 5-7 minutes shower time with 10 litres (2.5 gallons) water.
EASY TO OPERATE (JUST ADD WATER) - You could put the shower pump into water and turn on the power and then you could enjoy the best shower
THREE CHARGING METHODS – There are three ways to charge : 1. mobile phone charger; 2. USB output from laptop ; 3. USB output from car; And it works up to 60 minutes at full charge of Continuous Use
COMPACT AND PORTABLE – It is supplied with mounting accessories that was easily to carry in Luggage, Backpack or Car Trunk.
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Remember the beginning teaser's ending in "Goldfinger"?
Hahahaha.
The electrical heating appliance below is designed to go into a tub of water and is SAFE. An even better way than heating an entire bathrub of water or shuttling hot water from your stove is to get this $12 water element heater and warm a 5 GALLON BUCKET of cold water in your BSC combo; just 1 step/time to finger-comfy warmth or thermometer-measured 100-110F, then shower 'til finished. FINIS.
Diximus 10in 1000W 110V Water Heater Portable Electric Immersion Bucket Element Boiler Travel
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[INCREDIBLY POWERFUL]
Portable immersion bucket water heater is very powerful; with its 1000W it is extremely ginormous, strong, and can heat 5 gallons of water in 3-4 minutes. 8.KEEP HANDS OFF. Don’t put your hand into the liquid when the element is plugged in a wall outlet
[PORTABLE AND SIMPLE]
Water immersion heater is simple in design and very compact, making it widely distributed. It is simple electric appliance for heating liquids
[WIDE USE]
Great electric heater for small and medium sized jobs. Immersion heaters can be used on the farm, for bathroom sink, to heat outdoor pond, as awesome camping necessity. Ideal for home, office and travel
[SPECIFICATION]
AC 110V, 1000W, 201 stainless steel, total length: 10" ((25.4cm), tube length: 7.3" (18.5cm), heating coil diameter: 0.256" (6.5mm), cable length: 4.9 ft (1.5m)
[HANDY]
Unlike the electric kettle it has not a vessel for the liquid and needs to be dip in liquid. A tube of portable immersion bucket water heater is used as the heating element in this water boiler
Down! Down! the Wicked Electrical Grid is DOWN....
Another bad movie-derived pun.
With no 110v grid power going into your home, you can still take COLD showers--this might be enough for a lot of REALLY TOUGH, STOICAL people!
However, if you are like Commander Fleming's Bond and myself, you'll want an at least warm--if not hot--shower before going on COLD. You have a 110v heating element that just needs--you guessed it--110 volts of electricity. Your car--perhaps a Yaris-Martin with TRUNK 'N BUNK aft sleeping area---should have an inverter to convert its propulsion system's 12v to 110v to heat up a 5-gallon bucket of cold water to hot using the car's gas-powered engine on for less than 5 minutes.
007 TRUNK 'N Bunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQDvncqxX7E
During this time, you can also be recharging your laptop computer that also needs the 110v help before being reduced to whatever weird voltage it needs--usually 11.1v--unfortunately more than the easy 5v. Even if the power grid is down, the large screen laptop can do far more things than your tiny selfphonecam--like having a keyboard to make internal HD documents--like what devices you have needing what type batteries etc. Your HOME DEFENSE (HD) SOP might be once-a-week, cranking your car engine to recharge devices that need the 110v boost, heating up a bucket of hot water for an indoor ePSH shower in your BSC combo.
We are Close...
HOME DEFENSIVE technology should be seen as a "work-in-progress" getting closer and closer to HEALTHY off-grid independence. For WAR, the USMIL has still yet to admit that human beings need a commode and hot showers to fight at 100% efficiency built into every tracked, armored tank aka WAR WAGON so CAVALRY, DRAGOONS and MECHANDOs can fight 24/7 non-stop to combat overmatch foes with OPTEMPO.
Without a TBATE destructive force destroying your above-ground static home, the SPECTRE of evil humans refusing to live decently is the TBAM crisis of polite society infrastructure suddenly becoming un-available--the COVID19 is actually a mild dress rehearsal for a severe STHF mess. One needs organized society for water, food and electricity--in that order--if the JBC has shelter covered (pun intended). You can collect/store enough H2O to live off-the-water-grid indefinitely with adequate rainfall or a below-ground well. You can live without societal-supplied, store-distributed food if you farm your own and can small game hunt--consider the opening moves of the "Wolverines" partisan group in the John Milius original, "Red Dawn" in 1982. Being able to shoot a deer and live off its delicious meat just about sustains everyone--and American rednecks know this.
Will you be happy?
LOL. No you will not! Consider what the Wolverines did when the RICE CRISPIES cereal boxes fell out the back of a truck convoy they just ambushed. SUGAR!! YUMM!
MRE Steve's YOUTUBE channel details all the world's MREs--his recent reveal of the Taiwanese Army ration composing of crackers with chocolate syrup 3x a day is just short of horrific.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9WdP-9Q2JI
Just go to WalMart and buy as many canned foods as you can, when you can--for SHTF preparation (prep). Their Great Value BEEF STEW tastes better with less chemicals than the more expensive name brands and one small can fills you for a day.
James Bond is REAL.
NOTES
LAPTOP Battery Ground Truth
https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/what-is-the-life-span-of-a-rechargeable-battery/td-p/2758016
jcn77056
4 Tellurium
01-01-2008 06:58 PM
Re: what is the life span of a rechargeable battery
What mileage do you get in your car? Just saying "it depends".
Normal use the original Dell battery should last 18-24 months. As it dies, it can hold less of a charge which I suspect is what happened to yours.
If you're going to get a new battery, consider where you buy it. Avoid E-Bay and try to get an original Dell battery. It should be 53Whr.
D Elite 1
2 Bronze
01-02-2008 02:05 PM
Re: what is the life span of a rechargeable battery
My brother has a similar problem only with his, as soon as you unplug it it turns off. Batteries can also lose life as a result of being charged for too long, My brother left his plugged in for days, and that's what killed it, you should try to run the battery out completely before recharging it. Doing this has actually given me more battery life.
GreyMack
5 Tungsten
01-03-2008 04:30 PM
Re: what is the life span of a rechargeable battery
Circuitry within the notebook's Lithium Ion battery module prevents over-charging, so it shouldn't be an issue.
Depleting the battery fully before re-charging is also not applicable to Lithium Ion notebook batteries. Save that advice for the cordless power tool forum.
QandA
1 Copper
01-18-2008 03:31 AM
Re: what is the life span of a rechargeable battery
Lithium Ion batteries can usually be charged 300 to 500 times [charge-discharge cycles] ... after that usually some cells in the battery start failing and the battery slowly dies ...
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